Romans 8:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:

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  • 2 Cor 1:22 : 22 And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory.
  • 2 Cor 5:5 : 5 Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.
  • 1 John 4:13 : 13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.
  • Eph 1:13 : 13 In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,
  • 1 John 3:19-22 : 19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him, 20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things. 21 My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him; 22 And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
  • Eph 4:30 : 30 And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.
  • Rom 8:23 : 23 And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.
  • Rom 8:26 : 26 And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

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  • Rom 8:13-15
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    13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

    14 And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

    15 For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

  • Rom 8:17-19
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    17 And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.

    18 I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.

    19 For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.

  • Gal 4:5-7
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    5 That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.

    6 And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.

    7 So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

  • Rom 8:9-11
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    9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

    10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11 But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

  • Rom 8:22-23
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    22 For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

    23 And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

  • Heb 10:15
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    15 And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

  • Rom 8:26-27
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    26 And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

    27 And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.

  • 1 John 4:6
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    6 We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

    2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

  • Gal 3:26
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    26 Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 2:12-13
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    12 But we have not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things which are freely given to us by God.

    13 And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.

  • Matt 10:20
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    20 Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you.

  • Rom 9:8
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    8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

  • 1 John 5:6-10
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    6 This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.

    7 And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

    8 There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.

    9 If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

    10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

  • Acts 15:8
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    8 And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

  • Rom 8:31
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    31 What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

  • 1 John 4:2
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    2 By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

  • 1 Cor 2:10
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    10 But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4 You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

  • Rom 8:4-5
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    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

    5 For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

  • 1 John 3:19
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    19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

  • Gal 4:28
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    28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

  • Gal 3:7
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    7 Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

  • 1 John 5:2
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    2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5 Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

  • Gal 4:31
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    31 So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

  • John 15:26
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    26 When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of true knowledge who comes from the Father--he will give witness about me;

  • 2 Cor 1:22
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    22 And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory.

  • John 3:6
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    6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

  • Col 1:8
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    8 And who, himself, made clear to us your love in the Spirit.