Devotion to the Holy Spirit: Saint Paul's most beautiful phrases about the Spirit of God

Da Paolo Tessione - June 29, 2019

The kingdom of God is not food or drink, but justice, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. (Letter to the Romans 14,17)
We are the true circumcised, who celebrate the worship moved by the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus without trusting in the flesh. (Letter to the Philippians 3,3)
The love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Letter to the Romans 5,5)
It is God himself who confirms us, together with you, in Christ and has given us the anointing, has given us the seal and given us the deposit of the Spirit in our hearts. (Second letter to Corinthians 1,21-22)
But you are not under the dominion of the flesh, but of the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. If someone does not have the Spirit of Christ, it does not belong to him. (Letter to the Romans 8,9)
And if the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you. (Letter to the Romans 8,11)
Guard, through the Holy Spirit who lives in us, the precious good that has been entrusted to you. (Second letter to Timothy 1,14)
In him you too, after listening to the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation, and having believed in it, received the seal of the Holy Spirit that had been promised. (Letter to the Ephesians 1,13)
Do not want to sadden the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were marked for the day of redemption. (Letter to the Ephesians 4,30)
In fact, it is known that you are a letter of Christ [...] written not in ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets, but on tables of human hearts. (Second letter to Corinthians 3:33)
Don't you know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? (First letter to Corinthians 3,16)
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, magnanimity, benevolence, kindness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control. (Letter to Galatians 5,22)