LUKE 11.13

If, then, you, being evil, have known to be giving good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!”

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PHILIPPIANS 3.12

Not that I already obtained, or have already been perfected, but I pursue, if I also may lay hold of that for which I was also laid hold of by Christ Jesus;

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HEBREWS 6.1

we may advance to perfection

ISAIAH 28.16

Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: “Behold, I am laying a foundation in Zion, || A stone—a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a settled foundation, || He who is believing does not make haste

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ISAIAH 62.6-7

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, || All the day and all the night, || Continually, they are not silent.” O you remembering YHWH, do not keep silence for yourselves, And do not give silence to Him, || Until He establishes, and until He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

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ACTS 2.4

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit,

EPHESIANS 5.18

but be filled in the Spirit,

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ROMANS 6.3

Are you ignorant that we, as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus, were immersed into His death?

ACTS 2.4

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit,

EPHESIANS 5.18

but be filled in the Spirit,

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1 CORINTHIANS 9.26-27

I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; but I bruise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.

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PHILIPPIANS 3.12

Not that I already obtained, or have already been perfected, but I pursue, if I also may lay hold of that for which I was also laid hold of by Christ Jesus;

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GALATIANS 4.6

and because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

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HEBREWS 12.1-3

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, may we run the contest that is set before us through endurance, looking to the Author and Perfecter of the faith—Jesus, who, for the joy set before Him, endured a cross, having despised shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God; for again consider Him who endured such contradiction from the sinners to Himself, that you may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.