Person
Holy Spirit
Also called Spirits, Comforter, Holy Ghost
Mentioned in 211 verses across 23 books, first in 1 Corinthians 2:4. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections), not counting Old Testament verses read as about them.
In the Bible
All 16 verses in 1 Corinthians, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 2:4
My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
- 1 Corinthians 2:10
But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
- 1 Corinthians 2:11
For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
- 1 Corinthians 2:13
And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- 1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
- 1 Corinthians 6:11
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:19
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
- 1 Corinthians 7:40
In my judgment, however, she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
- 1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 12:4
There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 12:7
Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
- 1 Corinthians 12:8
To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit,
- 1 Corinthians 12:9
to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,
- 1 Corinthians 12:11
All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.
- 1 Corinthians 12:13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
Identified with the Holy Spirit in Christian tradition
The Hebrew speaks of the spirit (rûaḥ) of God or of the LORD. Christian tradition identifies it with the Holy Spirit, a person of the Trinity; Jewish tradition reads it as God's own power or presence, not a separate person. These 35 verses are not counted above.
- Genesis 1:2
- Genesis 41:38
- Judges 3:10
- Judges 6:34
- Judges 11:29
- Judges 13:25
- Judges 14:6
- Judges 14:19
- Judges 15:14
- 1 Samuel 10:6
- 1 Samuel 10:10
- 1 Samuel 11:6
- 1 Samuel 16:13
- 1 Samuel 16:14
- 1 Samuel 19:20
- 1 Samuel 19:23
- 2 Samuel 23:2
- 1 Kings 18:12
- 1 Kings 22:24
- 2 Kings 2:16
- 2 Chronicles 15:1
- 2 Chronicles 18:23
- 2 Chronicles 20:14
- 2 Chronicles 24:20
- Job 33:4
- Psalms 51:11
- Isaiah 40:13
- Isaiah 48:16
- Isaiah 59:19
- Isaiah 61:1
- Isaiah 63:10
- Isaiah 63:11
- Isaiah 63:14
- Ezekiel 11:5
- Ezekiel 11:24
Events
Events the dataset lists Holy Spirit as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. 4004 BCCreation of all things
- no dateThe Holy Spirit is promised
- no dateThe Holy Spirit comes
- c. AD 30Peter and John's Trial
- c. AD 30Believers pray for boldness
- c. AD 30Ananias and Sapphira lie to God
- c. AD 30Seven chosen to serve
- c. AD 31Philip preaches in Samaria
- c. AD 32Conversion of Ethiopian Eunuch
- c. AD 32Saul is converted
- c. AD 38Saul proclaims Jesus
- c. AD 38Peter meets Cornelius
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
The third Person of the adorable Trinity.
His personality is proved (1) from the fact that the attributes of personality, as intelligence and volition, are ascribed to him (John 14:17, 26; 15:26; 1 Cor. 2:10, 11; 12:11). He reproves, helps, glorifies, intercedes (John 16:7-13; Rom. 8:26). (2) He executes the offices peculiar only to a person. The very nature of these offices involves personal distinction (Luke 12:12; Acts 5:32; 15:28; 16:6; 28:25; 1 Cor. 2:13; Heb. 2:4; 3:7; 2 Pet. 1:21).
His divinity is established (1) from the fact that the names of God are ascribed to him (Ex. 17:7; Ps. 95:7; comp. Heb. 3:7-11); and (2) that divine attributes are also ascribed to him, omnipresence (Ps. 139:7; Eph. 2:17, 18; 1 Cor. 12:13); omniscience (1 Cor. 2:10, 11); omnipotence (Luke 1:35; Rom. 8:11); eternity (Heb. 9:4). (3) Creation is ascribed to him (Gen. 1:2; Job 26:13; Ps. 104:30), and the working of miracles (Matt. 12:28; 1 Cor. 12:9-11). (4) Worship is required and ascribed to him (Isa. 6:3; Acts 28:25; Rom. 9:1; Rev. 1:4; Matt. 28:19).