“Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”
— WEB
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“Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”
— WEB
“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
— KJV
“And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.”
— ASV
grieve not--A condescension to human modes of thought most touching. Compare "vexed His Holy Spirit" (Isa 63:10; Psa 78:40); "fretted me" (Eze 16:43 : implying His tender love to us); and of hardened unbelievers, "resist the Holy Ghost" (Act 7:51). This verse refers to believers, who grieve the Spirit by inconsistencies such as in the context are spoken of, corrupt or worthless conversation, &c. whereby ye are sealed--rather, "wherein (or 'in whom') ye were sealed." As in Eph 1:13, believers are said to be sealed "in" Christ, so here "in the Holy Spirit," who is one with Christ, and who reveals Christ in the soul: the Greek implies that the sealing was done already once for all. It is the Father "BY" whom believers, as well as the Son Himself, were sealed (Joh 6:27). The Spirit is represented as itself the seal (Eph 1:13, for the image employed, see on Eph 1:13). Here the Spirit is the element IN which the believer is sealed, His gracious influences being the seal itself. unto--kept safely against the day of redemption, namely, of the completion of redemption in the deliverance of the body as well as the soul from all sin and sorrow (Eph 1:14; Luk 21:28; Rom 8:23).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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