Ephesians 1:13

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Summary

In 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,

Ye also

Ephesians 2:11

Colossians 1:21

1 Peter 2:10

After that ye heard

Ye were

Holy

General references

Matthew 12:21

Bible References

Ye also

So remember that you were once heathen in a physical sense, called the uncircumcised by those who call themselves the circumcised -- though only in a physical sense, by human hands.

So you, who were once estranged from Him, and hostile in disposition as shown by your wrongdoings, He has now reconciled

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once His mercy had not been shown you, but now it has.

After that ye heard

if, as I take it, you have heard Him and in union with Him have been taught the truth as it is seen in Jesus,

For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

But, thank God, that though you once were slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching in which you have been instructed,

But how can people call upon One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in One about whom they have not heard? And how can people hear without someone to preach to them?

because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all God's people,

For another reason too, we, as far as we are concerned, are constantly giving thanks to God; that is, when you received the message you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which keeps on working in you who believe.

Ye were

You must stop offending the Holy Spirit of God by whom you have been stamped for the day of redemption.

Stop toiling for the food that perishes, but toil for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has given Him authority to do so."

Afterward he received the mark of circumcision as God's seal of his right standing with Him on condition of faith which he had before he was circumcised, that he might be the forefather of all who have faith while still uncircumcised, that they might have their faith credited to them as right standing with God;

and put His seal upon us, and given us His Spirit in our hearts as a first installment of future rewards.

But God's foundation stands unshaken, with these inscriptions: "The Lord knows the people who belong to Him" and "Everyone who bears the name of the Lord must abstain from evil."

Then I saw another angel coming up from the east with the seal of the living God, and he cried out to the four angels who had the power to injure the earth and the sea:

Holy

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who continue to ask Him?"

And I will send down upon you what my Father has promised. But you, on your part, must stay right here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

And I will ask I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper, to remain with you to the end of the age;

"When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.

Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

And once while He was eating with them, He charged them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," He said,

But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

that the blessing promised to Abraham might through Jesus Christ come to the heathen, so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

General references

On His name the heathen will set their hopes."