Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Parallel translations
- WEB who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
- BSB placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.
- NKJV who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
- NASB who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
- NLT and he has identified us as his own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts as the first installment that guarantees everything he has promised us.
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Quick answer
God has sealed believers as His own and given the Holy Spirit as a down payment guaranteeing their future inheritance. The Spirit is God's pledge of salvation to come.
Overview
The 'seal' marks believers as belonging to God and secured by Him, while the Spirit is the 'down payment' (a first installment) of the full inheritance awaiting them. This assures Christians that their salvation is guaranteed, not by their own strength but by God's deposit of His Spirit. It points forward to the consummation of redemption that the Spirit secures.
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Cross-references · 12
- Eph 4:30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
- 2 Cor 5:5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
- Eph 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,
- John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
- Rev 9:4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
- Rom 8:14–16For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
- Rom 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.
- Rom 8:9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
- Rev 7:3Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
- 2 Tim 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
- Rom 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
- Rev 2:17He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
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