Holy Spirit, resisting

Scriptural images of resisting the Holy Spirit

Grieving the Spirit

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Resisting the Spirit

Acts 7:51 NKJV

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

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Blaspheming against the Spirit

Mark 3:29 NKJV

but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation”—

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Quenching the Spirit

1 Thessalonians 5:19 NKJV

Do not quench the Spirit.

Lying to the Spirit

Acts 5:3 NKJV

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?

Testing the Spirit

Acts 5:9 NKJV

Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Ways in which the Holy Spirit is resisted

Through sin

Galatians 5:17 NKJV

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

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Through rebellio

Psalm 106:33 NKJV

Because they rebelled against His Spirit, So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

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Through hardness of heart

Zechariah 7:12 NKJV

Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

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Through spiritual blindness

1 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.