Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
God's own Spirit takes up residence within the believer
The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the teaching that God's Spirit dwells within believers, making them temples of God. Paul develops this in Romans 8 and tells the Corinthians that their bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19). Affirmed across Christian traditions, it expresses the conviction that God is not merely distant but present and active in the life of each believer.
How it traveled
- RomansCorinth · 67explains
- 1 CorinthiansEphesus · 67explains
- EphesiansRome · 67explains
- GalatiansEphesus · 67explains
- 2 CorinthiansPhilippi · 67explains
- ActsRome · 84explains
- LukeRome · 84explains
- JohnEphesus · 100explains
- 1 JohnEphesus · 100explains
- Against Heresies: Book VLyons · 202explains
- The Epistles of Cyprian.Carthage · 258explains
- Aphrahat: Select DemonstrationsMosul · 345explains
- The LettersCaesarea (Cappadocia) · 379explains
- The Catechetical Lectures of S. CyrilJerusalem · 386explains
- On the Holy SpiritMilan · 397explains
- A Commentary on the Acts of the ApostlesConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- Homilies on First CorinthiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and EphesiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the RomansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- Homilies on Second CorinthiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. JohnConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. JohnHippo Regius · 430explains
- Expositions on the Book of PsalmsHippo Regius · 430explains
- Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New TestamentHippo Regius · 430explains
- Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of JohnHippo Regius · 430explains
- The ConfessionsHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on the Spirit and the LetterHippo Regius · 430explains
- Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)Paris · 1274explains
- Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)Paris · 1274explains
- Commentary on GalatiansWittenberg · 1546explains
- Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic ChurchGeneva · 1564explains
- Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from ItGeneva · 1564explains
- Book First. of the Knowledge of God the CreatorGeneva · 1564explains
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three PartsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New EnglandNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Inquiry Concerning Qualification for CommunionNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvationNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Seventeen Occasional SermonsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Five Sermons. On Different OccasionsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Narrative of Surprising ConversionsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
Key passages(20)
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
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Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
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As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, an
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He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
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By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts · Jonathan Edwards
And it must be here observed, that although it is with relation to the Spirit of God and his influences, that persons and things are called spiritual; yet not all those persons who are subject to any
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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts · Jonathan Edwards
2. Another reason why the saints and their virtues are called spiritual, (and which is the principal thing.) is, that the Spirit of God, dwelling as a vital principle in the souls, produces there thos
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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts · Jonathan Edwards
True saints only have that which is spiritual; others not only have not these communications of the Spirit in so high a degree as the saints, but have nothing of that nature or kind. For the apostle J
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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts · Jonathan Edwards
The reason of it appears particularly from this, that gracious affections arise from those operations and influences which are spiritual, and that the inward principle from whence they flow, is someth
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A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter · Augustine of Hippo
Chapter 36 [XXI.]—The Law Written in Our Hearts. What then is God’s law written by God Himself in the hearts of men, but the very presence of the Holy Spirit, who is “the finger of God,” and by whose
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Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations · Aphrahat
11. And if anyone, whose conscience lacks knowledge, should dispute about this and say:—“Since Christ is one and His Father is one, how does Christ dwell, and His Father dwell, in faithful men? And ho
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Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations · Aphrahat
15. This is the Spirit, my beloved, that the Prophets received, and thus also have we received. And it is not at every time found with those that receive it, but sometimes it returns to Him that sent
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Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
3. Here it will be proper to point out the titles which the Scripture bestows on the Spirit, when it treats of the commencement and entire renewal of our salvation. First, he is called the “Spirit of
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the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
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Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John · Augustine of Hippo
5. The evangelist explained, as I have said, whereof the Lord had cried out, to what kind of drink He had invited, what He had procured for them that drink, saying, “But this spake He of the Spirit, w
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Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John · Augustine of Hippo
Tractate LXXIV. Chapter XIV. 15–17. 1. We have heard, brethren, while the Gospel was read, the Lord saying: “If ye love me, keep my commandments: and I will ask the Father, and He shall give you ano
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But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John · John Chrysostom
Homily LXXV. John xiv. 15–17 “If ye love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth,
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Two Sermons · Jonathan Edwards
The saints have both their spiritual excellency and blessedness by the gift of the Holy Ghost, and his dwelling in them. They are not only caused by the Holy Ghost, but are in him as their principle.
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