The Spirit of Truth – Biblical References
The Paraclete is the Spirit of Truth as we read in John 14 (DRA):
- 15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
- 16 And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever.
- 17 The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him: but you shall know him; because he shall abide with you, and shall be in you.
- 18 I will not leave you orphans, I will come to you.
John 15 (DRA)
- 25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause.
- 26 But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me.
- 27 And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.
John 16 (DRA)
- 12 I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.
- 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself; but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak; and the things that are to come, he shall shew you.
- 14 He shall glorify me; because he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it to you.
1 John 4 (DRA)
- 5 They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.
- 6 We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
- 7 Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.
