Since all this is true, won’t the work of the Holy Spirit be even more glorious?

何况那属灵的职事岂不更有荣光吗？

那属圣灵的事奉不是更有荣光吗？

那属圣灵的事奉不是更有荣光吗？

那么圣灵的事工岂不更有荣耀吗？

那出于圣灵的工作不是更有荣光吗？

何况那属圣灵的服事工作，难道不更带有荣光吗？

何況那屬靈的職事豈不更有榮光嗎？

那屬聖靈的事奉不是更有榮光嗎？

那屬聖靈的事奉不是更有榮光嗎？

那麼聖靈的事工豈不更有榮耀嗎？

那出於聖靈的工作不是更有榮光嗎？

何況靈的職事豈不更要帶着榮光麼？

何況那屬聖靈的服事工作，難道不更帶有榮光嗎？

況恃靈之役、其榮不更甚哉、

況本神之法、其榮不更甚哉、

況聖神之役、其榮不更大乎、

則供聖神之役者、其榮更當何如！

will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?

will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory?

Shouldn’t we expect far greater glory under the new way, now that the Holy Spirit is giving life?

how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?

how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?

won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple? Don’t you know that God’s Spirit lives among you?

But we long to be made completely holy because of our faith in Christ. Through the Holy Spirit we wait for this in hope.

Christ Jesus set us free so that the blessing given to Abraham would come to the Gentiles through Christ. He did it so that we might receive the promise of the Holy Spirit. The promised Spirit comes by believing in Christ.

God has raised this same Jesus back to life. We are all witnesses of this.Jesus has been given a place of honor at the right hand of God. He has received the Holy Spirit from the Father. This is what God had promised. It is Jesus who has poured out what you now see and hear.

“ Here is the covenant I will make with them,” says the Lord.“ My Spirit is on you and will not leave you. I have put my words in your mouth. They will never leave your mouth. And they will never leave the mouths of your children or their children after them. That will be true for all time to come,” says the Lord.

You have been chosen in keeping with what God the Father had planned. That happened through the Spirit’s work to make you pure and holy. God chose you so that you might obey Jesus Christ. God wanted you to be in a covenant relationship with him. He established this relationship by the blood of Christ. May more and more grace and peace be given to you.

He has given us the power to serve under a new covenant. The covenant is not based on the written Law of Moses. It comes from the Holy Spirit. The written Law kills, but the Spirit gives life.

In the past, God gave us grace through the law of Moses. Now, grace and truth come to us through Jesus Christ.

Suppose someone comes to you and preaches about a Jesus different from the Jesus we preached about. Or suppose you receive a spirit different from the Spirit you received before. Or suppose you receive a different message of good news. Suppose it was different from the one you accepted earlier. You put up with those kinds of things easily enough.

Now the Lord is the Holy Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, freedom is also there.

I will pour out water on the thirsty land. I will make streams flow on the dry ground. I will pour out my Spirit on your children. I will pour out my blessing on their children after them.

Brothers and sisters, we should always thank God for you. The Lord loves you. That’s because God chose you as the first to be saved. Salvation comes through the Holy Spirit’s work. He makes people holy. It also comes through believing the truth.

He said,“‘ In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Holy Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will have dreams.In those days, I will pour out my Spirit on my servants. I will pour out my Spirit on both men and women. When I do, they will prophesy.

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on that Branch. The Spirit will help him to be wise and understanding. The Spirit will help him make wise plans and carry them out. The Spirit will help him know the Lord and have respect for him.

“ After that, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will have dreams. Your young men will have visions.In those days I will pour out my Spirit on those who serve me, men and women alike.

Through Christ we both come to the Father by the power of one Holy Spirit.

But the fruit the Holy Spirit produces is love, joy and peace. It is being patient, kind and good. It is being faithfuland gentle and having control of oneself. There is no law against things of that kind.

When he said this, he meant the Holy Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus would receive the Spirit later. Up to that time, the Spirit had not been given. This was because Jesus had not yet received glory.

But you are not ruled by the power of sin. Instead, the Holy Spirit rules over you. This is true if the Spirit of God lives in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ.If Christ lives in you, you will live. Though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life. The Spirit does this because you have been made right with God.The Spirit of the God who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you. So the God who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your bodies. He will do this because of his Spirit who lives in you.Brothers and sisters, we have a duty. Our duty is not to live under the power of sin.If you live under the power of sin, you will die. But by the Spirit’s power you can put to death the sins you commit. Then you will live.Those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.The Spirit you received doesn’t make you slaves. Otherwise you would live in fear again. Instead, the Holy Spirit you received made you God’s adopted child. By the Spirit’s power we call God Abba. Abba means Father.The Spirit himself joins with our spirits. Together they tell us that we are God’s children.

There are different kinds of gifts. But they are all given to believers by the same Spirit.There are different ways to serve. But they all come from the same Lord.There are different ways the Spirit works. But the same God is working in all these ways and in all people.The Holy Spirit is given to each of us in a special way. That is for the good of all.To some people the Spirit gives a message of wisdom. To others the same Spirit gives a message of knowledge.To others the same Spirit gives faith. To others that one Spirit gives gifts of healing.To others he gives the power to do miracles. To others he gives the ability to prophesy. To others he gives the ability to tell the spirits apart. To others he gives the ability to speak in different kinds of languages they had not known before. And to still others he gives the ability to explain what was said in those languages.All the gifts are produced by one and the same Spirit. He gives gifts to each person, just as he decides.

I would like to learn just one thing from you. Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law? Or did you receive the Spirit by believing what you heard?Are you so foolish? You began by the Holy Spirit. Are you now trying to finish God’s work in you by your own strength?Have you experienced so much for nothing? And was it really for nothing?So I ask you again, how does God give you his Spirit? How does he work miracles among you? Is it by doing what the law says? Or is it by believing what you have heard?

They are the people who separate you from one another. They do only what comes naturally. They are not led by the Holy Spirit.But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith. Let the Holy Spirit guide and help you when you pray.