Ephesians 4:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Thess 5:19 : 19 Do not put out the light of the Spirit;
  • Isa 63:10 : 10 But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.
  • Eph 1:13-14 : 13 In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope, 14 Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.
  • Rom 8:23 : 23 And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:
  • Ps 95:10 : 10 For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;
  • Isa 7:13 : 13 And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God?
  • Isa 43:24 : 24 You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.
  • Gen 6:6 : 6 And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.
  • Ezek 16:43 : 43 Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all these things; for this reason I will make the punishment of your ways come on your head, says the Lord, because you have done this evil thing in addition to all your disgusting acts.
  • Heb 3:10 : 10 So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;
  • Gen 6:3 : 3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
  • 1 Cor 15:54 : 54 But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.
  • Judg 10:16 : 16 So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.
  • Ps 78:40 : 40 How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!
  • Luke 21:28 : 28 But when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near.
  • Hos 13:14 : 14 I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.
  • Heb 3:17 : 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

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    31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

    32 And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

  • Eph 4:26-27
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    26 Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

    27 And do not give way to the Evil One.

  • 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.

  • Eph 1:13-14
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    13 In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,

    14 Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.

  • 19 Do not put out the light of the Spirit;

  • Eph 4:23-24
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    23 And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

    24 And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.

  • Heb 3:7-8
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    7 And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

    8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

  • Eph 5:6-7
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    6 Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

    7 Have no part with such men;

  • 22 And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory.

  • Eph 5:17-18
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    17 For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

    18 And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

  • 3 Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.

  • 29 But whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but the evil he has done will be with him for ever:

  • 16 Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

  • 4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • 5 Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

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    31 So I say to you, Every sin and every evil word against God will have forgiveness; but for evil words against the Spirit there will be no forgiveness.

    32 And whoever says a word against the Son of man, will have forgiveness; but whoever says a word against the Holy Spirit, will not have forgiveness in this life or in that which is to come.

  • Eph 4:17-20
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    17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

    18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

    19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

  • 8 Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

  • 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

  • 5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

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    16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

    17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

  • 4 And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

  • 15 As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

  • Jude 1:19-20
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    19 These are the men who make divisions, natural men, not having the Spirit.

    20 But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,

  • 9 Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

  • 8 But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

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    14 Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

    15 Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

  • 21 Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

  • Heb 3:12-13
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    12 My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

    13 But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

  • 10 And if anyone says a word against the Son of man, he will have forgiveness: but for him who says evil words against the Holy Spirit, there will be no forgiveness.

  • 8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

  • 5 Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

  • 11 Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

  • 3 Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;

  • 14 That good thing which was given to you keep safe, through the Holy Spirit which is in us.