¹⁹ Do not put out the light of the Spirit;

³⁰ And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.

⁵¹ You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

⁶ For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.

¹⁴ Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you.

¹⁰ But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.

¹¹ Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

³⁰ But if a revelation is given to another who is seated near, let the first be quiet.

⁷ Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.

¹⁶ And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.

³⁰ Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

⁴ And Samuel did as the Lord said and came to Beth-lehem. And the responsible men of the town came out to him in fear and said, Do you come in peace?

³ And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.