Ephesians 4:30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Study Note
Study Note
The command 'grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption' presents the Spirit's sealing as a present reality with an eschatological horizon and warns against the relational consequence of grieving the Spirit through sinful behavior. The 'seal' (sphragis) imagery in 1:13-14 and 4:30 draws on the practice of sealing documents and property as marks of ownership and guarantee. The Spirit's sealedness 'unto the day of redemption' makes the Spirit both a present guarantee and a future orientation — the same sense as Romans 8:23's 'firstfruits of the Spirit' as down payment. Isaiah 63:10's 'they grieved his Holy Spirit' provides the Old Testament background for the relational language of spiritual grief.
Other Translations
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.
and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.
And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.
Cross References
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And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his …