Ephesians 4:30
Good News Translation
And do not make God's Holy Spirit sad; for the Spirit is God's mark of ownership on you, a guarantee that the Day will come when God will set you free.

New Revised Standard Version
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.

Contemporary English Version
Don't make God's Spirit sad. The Spirit makes you sure that someday you will be free from your sins.

New American Bible
And do not grieve the holy Spirit of God, with which you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.

grieve.

Genesis 6:3,6 And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. . . .

Judges 10:16 And saying these things, they cast away out of their coasts all the idols of strange gods, and served the Lord their God: and he was touched with their miseries.

Psalm 78:40 How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

Psalm 95:10 Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

Isaiah 7:13 And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also?

Isaiah 43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy victims. But thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.

Isaiah 63:10 But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Ezekiel 16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned all thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all thy abominations.

Mark 3:5 And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him.

Acts 7:51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

1 Thessalonians 5:19 Extinguish not the spirit.

Hebrews 3:10,17 Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways. . . .

whereby.

Ephesians 1:13 In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation), in whom also believing, you were signed with the holy Spirit of promise.

the day.

Ephesians 1:14 Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory.

Hosea 13:14 I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.

Luke 21:28 But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand.

Romans 8:11,23 And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

1 Corinthians 15:54 And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

Context
New Life in Christ
29Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good, to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the hearers. 30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.…
Cross References
Genesis 6:6
It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,

Psalm 78:40
How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

Isaiah 63:10
But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

John 3:33
He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

Ephesians 1:13
In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation), in whom also believing, you were signed with the holy Spirit of promise.

1 Thessalonians 5:19
Extinguish not the spirit.

Hebrews 10:29
How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?

Ephesians 4:29
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