Ephesians 4:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ μὴ λυπεῖτε τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐν ᾧ ἐσφραγίσθητε εἰς ἡμέραν ἀπολυτρώσεως.

Transliteration

And not lypeite the Pneuma the Hagion of the Theou, in whom you were esphragisthēte for hēmeran apolytrōseōs.

Grammar Details

• *lypeite*: present active imperative, 2nd plural - grieve
• *Pneuma*: accusative neuter singular - Spirit
• *Hagion*: accusative neuter singular - Holy
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *esphragisthēte*: aorist passive indicative, 2nd plural - you were sealed
• *hēmeran*: accusative feminine singular - day
• *apolytrōseōs*: genitive feminine singular - of redemption

Word Meanings

• *lypeite*: grieve/cause sorrow to
• *Pneuma* *Hagion*: Holy Spirit
• *Theou*: God/deity
• *esphragisthēte*: were sealed/marked/secured
• *hēmeran*: day/time
• *apolytrōseōs*: redemption/deliverance/release by payment

Referenced Verses

• 1 Thess 5:19 : 19 Quench not the Spirit;
• Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.
• Eph 1:13-14 : 13 in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, — in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of [God's] own possession, unto the praise of his glory.
• Rom 8:23 : 23 And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• Ps 95:10 : 10 Forty years long was I grieved with [that] generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:
• Isa 7:13 : 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?
• Isa 43:24 : 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast burdened me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
• Gen 6:6 : 6 And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
• Ezek 16:43 : 43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness with all thine abominations.
• Heb 3:10 : 10 Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;
• Gen 6:3 : 3 And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.
• 1 Cor 15:54 : 54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
• Acts 7:51 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
• Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
• Mark 3:5 : 5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their heart, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored.
• Judg 10:16 : 16 And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Jehovah; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
• Ps 78:40 : 40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
• Luke 21:28 : 28 But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.
• Hos 13:14 : 14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
• Heb 3:17 : 17 And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?