Bible Verses About Witness of the Holy Spirit
Key Bible Verses
Many years you extended them mercy and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets; yet they would not listen. Therefore you handed them over to the peoples of the lands.
the Ruach HaKodesh came down on him in physical form like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, "You are my Son, whom I love; I am well pleased with you."
Then Yochanan gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and remaining on him.
I myself did not know who he was, but the one who sent me to immerse in water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining, this is the one who immerses in the Ruach HaKodesh.’
“When the Counselor comes, whom I will send you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth, who keeps going out from the Father — he will testify on my behalf.
God has exalted this man at his right hand as Ruler and Savior, in order to enable Isra’el to do t’shuvah and have her sins forgiven.
We are witnesses to these things; so is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Therefore, Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba remained for a long time, speaking boldly about the Lord, who bore witness to the message about his love and kindness by enabling them to perform signs and miracles.
And God, who knows the heart, bore them witness by giving the Ruach HaKodesh to them, just as he did to us;
while others refused to believe. So they left, disagreeing among themselves, after Sha’ul had made one final statement: “The Ruach HaKodesh spoke well in saying to your fathers through Yesha‘yahu the prophet,
‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing but never understand, and you will keep on seeing but never perceive,
because the heart of this people has grown thick — with their ears they barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, for fear that they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and do t’shuvah, so that I could heal them.”’
The Spirit himself bears witness with our own spirits that we are children of God;
and neither the delivery nor the content of my message relied on compelling words of “wisdom” but on a demonstration of the power of the Spirit,
that the Good News we brought did not become for you a matter only of words, but also one of power, the Ruach HaKodesh and total conviction — just as you know how we lived for your sakes when we were with you.
while God also bore witness to it with various signs, wonders and miracles, and with gifts of the Ruach HaKodesh which he distributed as he chose.
For by a single offering he has brought to the goal for all time those who are being set apart for God and made holy.
And the Ruach HaKodesh too bears witness to us; for after saying,
Those who obey his commands remain united with him and he with them. Here is how we know that he remains united with us: by the Spirit whom he gave us.
Here is how we know that we remain united with him and he with us: he has given to us from his own Spirit.
He is the one who came by means of water and blood, Yeshua the Messiah — not with water only, but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
There are three witnesses —
the Spirit, the water and the blood — and these three are in agreement.
If we accept human witness, God’s witness is stronger, because it is the witness which God has given about his Son.
Those who keep trusting in the Son of God have this witness in them. Those who do not keep trusting God have made him out to be a liar, because they have not trusted in the witness which God has given about his Son.