KJV King James Version
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
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Ephesians 4:30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
WEB World English Bible
Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
ASV American Standard Version
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.
Surrounding context — Ephesians 4
27 Neither give place to the devil.
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
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καὶG2532 · kaiandμὴG3361 · mēnotλυπεῖτεG3076 · lupeōto grieveτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoπνεῦμαG4151 · pneumaspirit/breath: spiritτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoἅγιονG40 · hagiosholyτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεοῦG2316 · theosGodἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongᾧG3739 · hos, hēwhichἐσφραγίσθητεG4972 · sphragizōto sealεἰςG1519 · eistowardἡμέρανG2250 · hēmeradayἀπολυτρώσεως.¶G629 · apolutrōsisredemption
Cross-references
1 Thessalonians 5:19Quench not the Spirit.Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.Ephesians 1:13-14In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,Acts 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.Genesis 6:6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.Romans 8:23And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.Romans 8:11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.Mark 3:5And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched [it] out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.Isaiah 43:24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.Psalm 78:40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!Genesis 6:3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.Isaiah 7:13And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is it] a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?Ezekiel 16:43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these [things]; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon [thine] head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.1 Corinthians 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:Psalm 95:10Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:Hebrews 3:10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.1 Corinthians 15:54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.Hebrews 3:17But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
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