Verses showing the Trinity of God

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        <b>Verses showing the plurality of God in the Old and New Testaments</b>
      
      
        
      
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             The Bible teaches a plurality within the Godhead in both the Old and New Testaments.  
        It is these verses, in part, that lay down the foundation for the doctrine of the Trinity. 
         For more information on the trinity, please see What is the Trinity? and The Trinity 
        Chart on how the doctrine of the Trinity is arrived at.  See more information on the Holy 
        Spirit
      
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        <b>Plurality of God in the Old Testament</b>
      
      
        
      
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        Gen. 1:26, "Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and 
        let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle 
        and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'"
      
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        Angels do not create. 
      
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        We are not made in the image of angels 
      
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        there is no place in the OT where a leader refers to himself with the term "us." 
      
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        Gen. 3:22, "Then the Lord God said, 'Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing 
        good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, 
        and eat, and live forever.'" 
      
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        Gen. 7:11, "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not 
        understand one another's speech." 
      
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        Gen. 19:24, "Then the Lord [YHWH] rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the 
        Lord [YHWH] out of heaven." 
      
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        Psalm 45:6-7, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of uprightness is the 
        scepter of Thy kingdom. 7Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; Therefore 
        God, Thy God, has anointed Thee."
      
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        This is quoted in Heb. 1:8, "But of the Son He [God] says, "Thy throne, O God, is forever 
        and ever, And the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom." 
      
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        The Jehovah's Witness Bible has it translated as "God is thy Throne forever and ever..."  
        But, God would not be a throne for anyone.  A king sits upon a throne and God sits on His 
        throne, not anyone else on God as a throne. 
      
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        Isaiah 6:8, "Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will 
        go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!'" 
      
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        Isaiah 48:16, "Come near to Me [God], listen to this: From the first I have not spoken in 
        secret, From the time it took place, I was there. And now the Lord God has sent Me, and 
        His Spirit." 
      
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        Amos 4:10-11, "I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men 
        by the sword along with your captured horses, And I made the stench of your camp rise up 
        in your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the Lord [YHWH]. 11"I 
        overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand snatched 
        from a blaze; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the Lord." 
      
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        <b>Plurality of God in the New Testament</b>
      
      
        
      
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        Matt. 3:16-17, "And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and 
        behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and 
        coming upon Him, 17and behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, "This is My beloved 
        Son, in whom I am well-pleased." 
      
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        Matt. 28:19, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the 
        name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,"
      
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        Note that there is one name and three persons. 
      
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        1 Cor. 12:4-6, "Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5And there are 
        varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. 6And there are varieties of effects, but the 
        same God who works all things in all persons."
      
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         "Lord" here is probably Jesus.  See next verse. 
      
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        2 Cor. 13:14, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship 
        of the Holy Spirit, be with you all." 
      
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        Eph. 4:4-6, "There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of 
        your calling; 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over 
        all and through all and in all." 
      
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        1 Pet. 1:2, "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of 
        the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and 
        peace be yours in fullest measure." 
      
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        Jude 20-21, "But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith; praying in 
        the Holy Spirit; 21keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of 
        our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life."
      
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