| In the Bible, the phrase spirit of truth occurs
three times in the Gospel of John and once in 1 John. |
| Comforter |
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And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; |
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John 14:16–18 |
World cannot receive
Indwelling
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Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,
because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he
dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. |
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| Comforter |
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But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you
from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father,
he shall testify of me: |
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John 15:26 |
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| Guide to truth |
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Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide
you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he
shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. |
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John 16:13–14 |
| Glorify Jesus |
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He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall
shew it unto you. |
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| World-speak |
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They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world
heareth them. |
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1 John 4:5–6 |
| God's people have |
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We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is
not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit
of truth, and the
spirit of error. |
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| It occurs a total of nine times in four revelations
of the Doctrine and Covenants. There are no occurrences in the Book of
Mormon or Pearl of Great Price. |
| Enlightens the mind |
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Behold thou knowest that thou hast inquired
of me, and I did enlighten thy mind; and now I tell thee these things,
that thou mayest know that thou hast been enlightened by the Spirit
of truth; |
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BC 5:7 // D&C 6:15 |
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| Teach the truth by the
Spirit (Comforter) |
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Wherefore I the Lord asketh you this question,
unto what was ye ordained |
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BC, Book B, 2–4 // D&C 50:13–14, 17–22. |
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to preach {3} my gospel by the Spirit even the
Comforter which was sent forth to teach the truth, |
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| Preach by spirit of truth |
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verily I say unto you he that is ordained of
me, & sent forth to preach the word of truth by the Comforter in the
Spirit of truth, doth he preach it by the Spirit
of truth, or some other
way, |
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& if by some other way, it
be not of God, |
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| Receive by spirit of truth |
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And again, he that receiveth the
word of truth, doth he receive it by the Spirit of
truth or some other
way, |
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| Only way |
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if it be some other way it be not
of God.— |
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| Preach/receive |
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wherefore why
is it that ye can not understand {4}& know that he that receiveth
the word by the Spirit of truth receiveth it as it
is preached by the Spirit of truth, |
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wherefore, he that preacheth & he
that receiveth understandeth one another and both are edified and rejoice
together |
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| He was the Word |
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Therefore in the beginning the word was, for He was the word even the
messenger of Salvation, |
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KRB, 56, 57 // D&C 93:8–9,
11, 23. |
| Light, Redeemer, spirit of truth,
Creator, life and light of men |
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the light and the Redeemer of the world; the spirit
of truth who came
into the world because the world was made by him, and in him was the life
of men, and the light of men. |
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| John: Only Begotten, spirit of truth, in
flesh |
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and I John bear record that I beheld his glory, as the glory of the only
begotten of the father full of grace and truth, even the spirit
of truth which came and dwelt in the flesh, and dwelt
among us. |
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Red: added in
1835 |
| Pre-existence as spirit |
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Ye were also in the beginning with the father. that which is spirit even
the spirit of truth |
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| Teaches temporal things |
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a high priest that is after the order of Melchizedek that
he may be set apart unto the ministering of temporal things having
a knowledge of them by the spirit of truth |
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[SHOPWREF=KRBK], 85 // D&C 107:71
Red: added in 1835
that he: dropped in 1835 |
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