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NASB	Romans 8:9 ¶ However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
AMPLIFIED 2015	Romans 8:9 ¶ However, you are not [living] in the flesh [controlled by the sinful nature] but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God lives in you [directing and guiding you]. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him [and is not a child of God]. [Rom 8:14]

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Subject: filled Holy Spirit, or to walk in spirit

Bible Note: Hi terrib, You wrote that "this very Spirit continues to witness to us..."

You are leaving out the word "spirit" which is in the Greek.

If in your mind you want to capitalize "the Spirit of adoption" as in the NKJ would you also agree with the "bears witness with our spirit" of verse 16? I desire to connect the (s)Spirit of adoption and our spirit in verse 16 as talking about the same thing. I don't believe that you would capitalize "our Spirit" in verse 16 to agree with the Spirit of adoption.

I also don't believe that you would go with KJ and consider "The Spirit itself beareth witness to our spirit".

1) As far as your saying that "the agent that brought us into this family is the Holy Spirit", I agree whole heartedly. I have no problem with the His Spirit indwelling us or being led by the Spirit of God found in the previous verses.

However, I still continue to believe in the Giver and the gift. The Spirit indwells us and gives us the gift of the *spirit which we receive.

1 Corinthians 12:4, "Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit."

2) 1 John 4:2, "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the *spirit of (God): every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world."

John 8:47, "He who is of God hears the words of (God); for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God." 48 The Jews answered and said to Him, "Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?" 49 Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon;..."

Please excuse my parentheses which I put in for comparisons.

From the heart, Ray