How much less
in them that
dwell in houses
of clay,
whose foundation
is in the dust,
which are crushed
before the moth?
But there is
a spirit in man:
and
the inspiration
of the Almighty
giveth them understanding.
Into thine hand
I commit
my spirit:
thou hast redeemed me,
O LORD God
of truth.
The spirit of man
is the candle
of the LORD,
searching all
the inward parts
of the belly.
All things
are full of labour;
man cannot utter it:
the eye
is not satisfied
with seeing,
nor the ear
filled with hearing.
Who knoweth
the spirit of man
that goeth upward,
and the spirit
of the beast
that goeth downward
to the earth?
Then shall
the dust return
to the earth
as it was:
and the spirit
shall return
unto God
who gave it.
With my soul
have
I desired thee
in the night;
yea,
with my spirit
within me will
I seek thee early:
for when
thy judgments
are in the earth,
the inhabitants
of the world
will learn
righteousness.
The burden
of the word
of the LORD
for Israel,
saith the LORD,
which stretcheth forth the heavens,
and layeth
the foundation
of the earth,
and formeth
the spirit
of man
within him.
But he
answered
and said,
It is written,
Man shall not live
by bread alone,
but by every
word that
proceedeth
out of the mouth
of God.
And fear not them which
kill the body,
but are not able
to kill the soul:
but
rather fear him which
is able
to destroy both soul
and body
in hell.
Watch and pray,
that ye
enter not
into temptation:
the spirit
indeed is willing,
but the flesh
is weak.
And
when Jesus
had cried
with a loud voice,
he said,
Father,
into thy
hands
I commend
my spirit:
and having said thus,
he gave up
the ghost.
Behold my hands
and my feet,
that it
is
I myself:
handle me,
and see;
for a spirit
hath not flesh
and bones,
as ye see me have.
Jesus
answered
and
said unto him,
Verily,
verily,
I say unto thee,
Except a man
be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom
of God.
Nicodemus
saith unto him,
How can a man
be born
when he
is old?
can
he enter
the second time
into his mother's womb,
and be born?
Jesus answered,
Verily,
verily,
I say unto thee,
Except a man
be born
of water
and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom
of God.
That which
is born
of the flesh
is flesh;
and
that which
is born
of the Spirit
is spirit.
Marvel
not
that I
said
unto thee,
Ye must be born again.
The wind
bloweth
where it listeth,
and
thou hearest
the sound thereof,
but canst
not tell whence it cometh,
and whither
it goeth:
so is every one
that is born
of the Spirit.
God is a Spirit:
and
they that worship him
must worship him
in spirit
and in truth.
And
they stoned
Stephen,
calling upon God,
and saying,
Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit.
For God
is my witness,
whom
I serve
with my spirit
in the gospel
of his Son,
that without ceasing
I make
mention of you
always in my prayers;
But
he is a Jew,
which is
one inwardly;
and circumcision
is
that of the heart,
in the spirit,
and
not in the letter;
whose praise
is not of men,
but of God.
For we
know
that the law
is spiritual:
but I
am carnal,
sold under sin.
For that
which I
do
I allow not:
for what I would,
that do I not;
but what I hate,
that do I.
If then I
do
that which
I would not,
I consent
unto the law
that it
is good.
Now
then it
is no more
I that
do it,
but sin
that dwelleth in me.
For I
know that in me
(that is,
in my flesh,)
dwelleth no good thing:
for to
will is
present with me;
but
how to perform
that which
is good
I find not.
For the good
that I
would
I do not:
but the evil
which I
would not,
that I do.
Now
if I
do that
I would not,
it is
no more I that
do it,
but sin
that dwelleth in me.
I find
then a law,
that,
when
I would do good,
evil is
present with me.
For I delight
in the law
of God
after the inward man:
But I
see
another law
in my members,
warring
against the law
of my mind,
and bringing me
into captivity
to the law
of sin which
is in my members.
O wretched man that
I am!
who shall deliver me
from the body
of this death?
I thank God
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So then
with the mind
I myself
serve
the law
of God;
but with the flesh
the law of sin.
For what man
knoweth the things
of a man,
save the spirit
of man
which is in him?
even so
the things
of God
knoweth no man,
but the Spirit
of God.
For ye
are bought
with a price:
therefore glorify God
in your body,
and
in your spirit,
which are God's.
There is difference
also between a wife
and a virgin.
The unmarried woman
careth
for the things
of the Lord,
that she
may be holy both
in body
and in spirit:
but
she that is married
careth
for the things
of the world,
how she
may please
her husband.
For if
I pray
in an unknown tongue,
my spirit prayeth,
but my understanding
is unfruitful.
For God,
who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness,
hath shined
in our hearts,
to give the light
of the knowledge
of the glory
of God
in the face
of Jesus Christ.
But
we have
this treasure
in earthen vessels,
that the excellency
of the power
may be of God,
and not of us.
For which
cause
we faint not;
but
though our outward man perish,
yet the inward man
is renewed day by day.
For we
know that
if our earthly house
of this tabernacle
were dissolved,
we have a
building of God,
an house
not made
with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
For in this
we groan,
earnestly desiring
to be clothed upon
with our house
which is from heaven:
If so
be
that being clothed
we shall not be found naked.
For we
that
are in this tabernacle
do groan,
being burdened:
not for that
we would be unclothed,
but clothed upon,
that mortality
might be swallowed up
of life.
Now
he that
hath wrought us
for the selfsame thing
is God,
who also hath given
unto us the earnest
of the Spirit.
Therefore we
are always confident,
knowing that,
whilst we
are at home
in the body,
we are absent
from the Lord:
(For we
walk
by faith,
not by sight:)
We are confident,
I say,
and willing
rather to be absent
from the body,
and
to be
present
with the Lord.
Wherefore
we labour,
that,
whether present
or absent,
we may be accepted of him.
That he
would grant you,
according to
the riches
of his glory,
to be strengthened
with might by his Spirit
in the inner man;
There is one body,
and one Spirit,
even as
ye are called in one hope
of your calling;
And the very God
of peace
sanctify
you wholly;
and I
pray God
your whole spirit
and soul
and body
be preserved blameless
unto the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For the word
of God
is quick,
and powerful,
and sharper
than any twoedged sword,
piercing even
to the dividing asunder
of soul
and spirit,
and
of the joints
and marrow,
and is a discerner
of the thoughts
and intents
of the heart.
For as the body
without the spirit
is dead,
so faith
without works
is dead also.