Ephesians 4:30

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Summary

Ephesians 4:30

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Grieve

Whereby

Ephesians 1:13

The day

Bible References

Grieve

Jehovah said: My Spirit will not contend (judge) (plead) with man forever, for he is mortal and corrupt. Therefore his days will be a hundred and twenty years.

So they removed the foreign gods and worshiped Jehovah. He could bear the distress of Israel no longer.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness! How often they caused him grief in the desert!

For forty years I was grieved with this generation. I said: It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.

Isaiah said: Hear this you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also?

You did not buy me any sugar cane with your money or satisfy me with the best part of your sacrifices. Rather, you burdened me with your sins and troubled me with your iniquities.

But they rebelled and grieved (offended and hurt) his Holy Spirit. So he turned against them as their enemy. He fought against them.

You have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged me by all these things. I will therefore bring your conduct down on your own head,' declares the Lord Jehovah. 'That way you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.

He looked at them and was angry. He was also sad on account of their hard hearts. He said to the man: Stretch out your hand. He stretched it out and his hand was healed.

You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.

Do not quench the Spirit.

I was disgusted (angry) with this generation, and said: 'They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.'

Whereby

You have heard the word of the truth in Christ. It is the good news about your salvation. You also believed and were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

The day

The Holy Spirit is a guarantee that we will receive our inheritance. This assures us that God will set us free to the praise of his glory.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave. I will redeem them from death! O death, where are your stings (plagues)? O grave, where is your destruction (devastation)? Compassion will be concealed from my eyes. (1 Co 15:54-57)

When these things begin to happen lift up your heads because your redemption draws near.

If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from among the dead dwells with you, he who raised Christ from among the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive. This is on account of his Spirit that dwells with you.

It is because of him you are united with Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

When this corruptible shall be clothed with (Greek: enduo: dressed, put on) incorruption, and this mortal shall be clothed with immortality, then the saying will come true: Death is swallowed up in victory.