41 You must keep alert and pray so that you can resist when you are tempted {something tempts you}. You want to do what I tell you, but you [SYN] are not strong enough to actually do it."

3 God is pleased with people who recognize that they have a spiritual need;

he will allow them to be the people whose lives he rules over.

17 Your self-directed nature ◄opposes God’s Spirit/does not want you to do what God’s Spirit wants you to do►, but also his Spirit opposes your self-directed nature. These two are always ◄fighting with/opposing► each other. The result is that you do not constantly do the good deeds that you truly desire to do.

16 So I tell you this: Constantly let God’s Spirit direct you. If you do that, you will certainly not do the things that your self-directed nature wants you to do.

22 But God’s Spirit causes us to do these things: We love others. We are joyful. We are peaceful. We are patient. We are kind. We are good. We are ones whom others can trust. 23 We are gentle. We control our behavior. There is no law that says people should not think and act in such ways.

25 Since God’s Spirit has caused us to be spiritually alive, we should conduct our lives the way the Spirit directs us.

6 Those people who [PRS] think about and are concerned about what their self-directed nature desires will not live eternally (OR, will be separated from God). But those people who think about and are concerned about what God’s Spirit desires will live eternally and have inner peace.

19 ◄Keep in mind that your bodies are like [MET] temples of the Holy Spirit./Do you not know that your bodies are like [MET] temples of the Holy Spirit?► [RHQ] The Spirit, whom God gave you, lives within you. You do not belong to yourselves. You belong to God, 20 because when his Son died for you it was as though [MET] God paid a price for you. So honor God by how you use your bodies!

17 But anyone who is united {who joins himself} to the Lord becomes one with him spiritually.

11 Only a person himself (OR, a person’s spirit) knows what he is thinking. Similarly, only God’s Spirit knows what God is thinking.

15 So I will tell you [RHQ] what we should do. At times we may pray, using only our spirits, in languages we have not learned. And at other times we should pray using our minds, thinking about the words that we are praying. Similarly, at times we may sing using only our spirits, using languages that we have not learned, and at other times we should sing using our minds, thinking about the words that we are singing.

16 I pray that, using his unlimited resources, he will cause you to be strengthened by his Spirit {cause his Spirit to strengthen you} in your ◄inner beings/hearts► with all God’s power. 17 That is, I pray that because of your trusting in Christ, his Spirit may live in your ◄inner beings/hearts► (OR, he may live in your hearts). And I pray that because you love Christ firmly and faithfully/continually [MET], you,

17 I pray that God, who is the glorious/wonderful Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, may cause his Spirit to make you wise, and that his Spirit will reveal God to you so that you may fully know him.

15 You have showed that this is true, because you received from God a Spirit that is not one that makes you fear God again. You are not like slaves who fear their masters [MET]. On the contrary, we have received a Spirit by whose work in our hearts God has adopted us. The Spirit now enables us to cry out to God, "You(sg) are my Father [DOU]!" 16 The Spirit himself confirms what our spirits say, that we are God’s children.

16 The Spirit himself confirms what our spirits say, that we are God’s children.

15 You have showed that this is true, because you received from God a Spirit that is not one that makes you fear God again. You are not like slaves who fear their masters [MET]. On the contrary, we have received a Spirit by whose work in our hearts God has adopted us. The Spirit now enables us to cry out to God, "You(sg) are my Father [DOU]!"

10 But since Christ is living in you/us by his Spirit, although your/our bodies are certain to die because you/we sin, your/our spirits are alive because God has erased the record of your/our sins.

14 We who are guided by the Spirit of God {allow the Spirit of God to guide us} are God’s children.

26 Similarly, in addition to our continuing to wait for what God will give us, God’s Spirit helps us when our spirits feel weak. We do not know what is proper/necessary for us to pray. But God’s Spirit knows, and he prays for us when we groan (OR, he groans) in a way that cannot be expressed in words (OR, prays with us, groaning in a way that cannot be expressed in words).

11 Do not be lazy. Instead, be eager to serve the Lord God!

13 God is the one who causes you to confidently expect him to do what he has promised. I pray/ask that he will cause you to be completely joyful and peaceful as you trust in him. As you do that, the Holy Spirit will enable you to more and more confidently expect to receive what God has promised you.

24 God is a spiritual being. So it is necessary that those who worship him must worship him as his Spirit directs and according to God’s truth."

23 However, there will be a time when those who genuinely worship God will worship him as God’s Spirit directs and according to God’s truth. In fact, that time is now. Those are the kind of worshipers my Father seeks. 24 God is a spiritual being. So it is necessary that those who worship him must worship him as his Spirit directs and according to God’s truth."

18 It is as though God has removed the veil from our faces [MET]. We realize how awesome Jesus is. As we realize that, we are continually being changed {the Holy Spirit is continually changing us} to become more and more like Jesus, so that people can see, more and more, how awesome Jesus is. It is the Spirit of the Lord who does this.

1 My friends, whom I love, because God has promised to accept us(inc) as his children, we (inc) must stop doing anything that is sinful. We must not do sinful things with our bodies, and we must not think sinful thoughts. Because we greatly revere God, we must strive to live a completely pure life. By doing that we will become the kind of people that he wants us to be.

7 Remember that God has put his Spirit within us. His Spirit does not cause us to be afraid. Instead, he causes us to be powerful to work for God, and he helps us to love others and to control what we say and do.

7 Remember that God has put his Spirit within us. His Spirit does not cause us to be afraid. Instead, he causes us to be powerful to work for God, and he helps us to love others and to control what we say and do.

19 because when I experience troubles, I know that some day God will say that he approves of what I have done (OR, that the Roman authorities will set me free). This will happen as a result of your praying for me, and as a result of God’s Spirit, whom Jesus Christ gave me, helping me.

23 My desire is that our Lord Jesus Christ will continue to act kindly toward you all [SYN].

23 If you pay attention to me when I rebuke you,

I will tell you what I am thinking in my inner being;

I will give you some good advice.

2 People may think that their actions are right,

but Yahweh really knows why people do what they do.

18 Being proud will ◄lead to your having/cause you to have► disasters;

despising others will result in your being ruined.

19 It is better to be humble and poor

than to associate with proud people and to become rich by dividing with them ◄plunder/goods captured in a battle►.

32 Those who do not become angry quickly are better than those who are powerful;

it is better to ◄control your temper/keep yourself from becoming very angry► than to conquer a city.

27 Our consciences are like lamps that Yahweh has given to us to enable us to know what we are thinking [MET];

they reveal what is hidden deep in our ◄minds/inner beings►.

6 Then he said to me, "This is the message that Yahweh says that you should give to Zerubbabel the governor of Judah: ‘You will do what I want you to do, but it will not be by your own strength or power. It will be done by the power of my Spirit, says the Commander of the armies of angels.

1 The Spirit of Yahweh our Lord is on me;

he has appointed [MTY] me to bring good news to those who are oppressed,

to comfort those who are discouraged,

to free all those who are as though they are chained/tied [DOU] by the wrong things that they continually do.

19 I will put a new way of thinking [IDM] within you. I will cause you to no longer be stubborn [IDM], and I will enable you to obey me completely [IDM]. 20 When I do that, you will carefully obey all my laws [DOU]. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

5 This is what Yahweh the Lord says to you bones: I will put my breath into each of you, and you will become alive again.

10 O God, cause my inner being to be pure.

Put new thoughts within me and make me faithful again.

11 Do not send me away from you because of my sin,

and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

12 Cause/Allow me to be happy again because of knowing that you have freed me from the guilt of my sin,

and make me willing to obey you.

17 The sacrifice that you really want is for people to be truly humble and sorry for having sinned;

O God, you will not refuse that kind of sacrifice.

18 Yahweh is always ready to help those who are discouraged;

he rescues those who have nothing good to hope for.

3 You people, do not trust in your leaders;

do not trust humans because they cannot save/rescue you from your difficulties/problems.

4 And when they die, their corpses decay and become soil again.

After they die, they can no longer do the things that they planned to do.

12 Beware of being insincere about doing this, because the message God has given us very powerfully penetrates our thinking more than a two-edged sword penetrates flesh [MET]. It penetrates deeply into our souls and spirits, as a sharp sword can penetrate into our joints and marrow. That is, by his message God [PRS] discerns all that we think about, and he discerns all that we desire to do [MTY] (OR, His message exposes to us all our thoughts and all our desires).

26 Remember that when our spirits permanently leave our bodies, our bodies are dead and useless. Similarly [SIM], if someone says, "I trust in God," but does not do things to help others, what that person says about trusting in God is useless.

1 Dear friends, many people who have a false message are teaching it to people [MTY]. So do not trust every message that someone claims/says that God’s Spirit [MTY] gave to him. Instead, ◄test/think carefully about► the teachings that you hear in order to know whether they are from God or not.

13 I will tell you how we can be sure that we have a close relationship with God and that God is within us: He has put his Spirit within us.

13 Even though you people are evil, you know how to give good things to your children. So your Father in heaven will certainly give good things to those who ask him, including giving the Holy Spirit, who is the best gift."

3 Then they saw what looked like flames of fire. These flames separated from one another, and one of them came down on the head of each of the believers. 4 Then all of the believers were ◄completely controlled/empowered► by the Holy Spirit {the Holy Spirit ◄completely controlled/empowered► all of the believers}, and he enabled them to begin speaking other languages [MTY] that they had not learned.

1 Long, long ago God created the heavens and the earth. 2 When he began to create the earth, it was shapeless and completely desolate/chaotic. Darkness covered the deep water that surrounded the earth. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the water.

8 But the Spirit of Almighty God is within people, and it is he who enables them to be wise.

6 Think much about God now, because soon our lives will end,

like [MET] silver chains or golden bowls that break easily,

or like pitchers/jugs that are broken at the water fountain,

or like broken pulleys at a well.

7 Then our corpses will decay and become dirt again,

and our spirits will return to God, the one who gave us our spirits.

2 I want you to know about all the wonderful miracles [DOU] that the Supreme God has performed for me.

3 He performs great miracles,

and does wonderful things.

His kingdom will last forever;

his rule over people will never end.