13 DESCRIPTIONS APPLIED TO ALL THREE IN THE TRINITY
{ * = God the Father / <> = The Holy Spirit / + = Jesus }
1) Who Indwells Believers?
*JOHN 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
*1 CORINTHIANS 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and {that} the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (17) If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which {temple} ye are.
*2 CORINTHIANS 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in {them}; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. {cf. Ex 29:45, Jer 31:33, Ezek 37:27}
*1 JOHN 4:12-16 . . . If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. (13) Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. (14) And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son {to be} the Saviour of the world. (15) Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. (16) And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
<>JOHN 14:16-17 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; (17) {Even} the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. {cf. Jn 14:18 below}
<>ROMANS 8:9,11 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his . . . (11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. {cf. Rom 8:10 below}
<>1 CORINTHIANS 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
<>1 CORINTHIANS 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost {which is} in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? {cf. to 1 Cor 3:16}
<>GALATIANS 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
<>1 JOHN 3:24 . . . And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
<>1 JOHN 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. {cf. Neh 9:20, Jn 14:26, 15:26, 16:7-8,13-15, Rom 8:14, 2 Cor 13:14}
+JOHN 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. {cf. Jn 14:16-17 above}
+JOHN 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I {am} in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
+JOHN 14:23 . . . If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
+JOHN 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
+JOHN 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; . . .
+ROMANS 8:10 And if Christ {be} in you, the body {is} dead because of sin; but the Spirit {is} life because of righteousness. {cf. Rom 8:9 above}
+1 JOHN 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him . . .
2) Who Raised Jesus From the Dead?
*GALATIANS 1:1 . . . God the Father, who raised him from the dead
{cf. 1 Thess 1:10}
<>ROMANS 8:11 . . . the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, . . .
+JOHN 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
+JOHN 10:17-18 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. [18] No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
3) Who Searches Minds and Hearts?
*JEREMIAH 17:10 I the Lord search the heart, {I} try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, {and} according to the fruit of his doings.
<>1 CORINTHIANS 2:10 But God hath revealed {them} unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
+REVELATION 2:23 . . . I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
4) Who Sanctifies Us?
*1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; . . .
<>1 PETER 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the spirit, . . .
+HEBREWS 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
5) Who Gives Us Words to Speak?
*MATTHEW 10:19-20 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. (20) For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
<>MARK 13:11 But when they shall lead {you}, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. {cf. Lk 12:11-12, Jn 14:26}
+LUKE 21:14-15 Settle {it} therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: (15) For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
6) Who Gave the New Covenant?
*JEREMIAH 31:33-34 But this {shall be} the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. (34) And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
<>HEBREWS 10:15-17 {Whereof} the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, (16) This {is} the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; (17) And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
+HEBREWS 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, . . . {cf. 8:1-13, 10:29, 13:20}
7) Who is the Creator?
*Gen 1:1, Is 44:24, Acts 17:24, Eph 3:9 / <>Job 33:4 / +Jn 1:3, Col 1:16, Heb 1:8,10
8] Who is Our Helper?
*Heb 13:6 / <>Rom 8:26 / +Heb 4:16
9) Who Are We Baptized in the Name of?
* <> + Mt 28:19
10) Who Comforts Us?
*2 Cor 1:3-4 / <>Acts 9:31 / +2 Cor 1:5 {cf. Jn 16:7}
11) Who Gives us Peace?
*Phil 4:7, 1 Cor 14:33 / <>Gal 5:22 / +Jn 14:27, Eph 2:14
12) Who Sends Out Christians?
*Mt 9:38 / <>Acts 13:4 / +Mt 10:16, Mar 3:14, Jn 20:21
13) Who Calls Christians to Ministry?
*Rom 8:28-30, Gal 1:15 / <>Acts 13:2 / +Rom 1:6