Holy Spirit, resisting (2)

Scriptural images of resisting the Holy Spirit

Grieving the Spirit

Is 63:10; Eph 4:30

Resisting the Spirit

Acts 7:51 KJV 1900

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

See also Ge 6:3; Ac 6:9–10

Blaspheming against the Spirit

Mark 3:29 KJV 1900

But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:

See also Heb 10:29

Quenching the Spirit

1 Thessalonians 5:19 KJV 1900

Quench not the Spirit.

Lying to the Spirit

Acts 5:3 KJV 1900

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Testing the Spirit

Acts 5:9 KJV 1900

Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

Ways in which the Holy Spirit is resisted

Through sin

Galatians 5:17 KJV 1900

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

See also Eph 4:30–31

Through rebellion

Psalm 106:33 KJV 1900

Because they provoked his spirit, So that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

See also Is 63:10

Through hardness of heart

Zechariah 7:12 KJV 1900

Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, And the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: Therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

See also Ac 7:51

Through spiritual blindness

1 Corinthians 2:14 KJV 1900

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.