Ephesians 1:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And when you heard the word of truth(the gospel of your salvation)– when you believed in Christ– you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

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  • Eph 4:30 : 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • 2 Cor 1:22 : 22 who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.
  • Acts 2:33 : 33 So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.
  • Col 1:4-6 : 4 since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints. 5 Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel 6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
  • 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.
  • Col 1:21-23 : 21 Paul’s Goal in Ministry And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds, 22 but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him– 23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 However, God’s solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal:“The Lord knows those who are his,” and“Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil.”
  • 2 Tim 3:15 : 15 and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Titus 2:11 : 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,
  • Acts 13:26 : 26 Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.
  • Rom 1:16 : 16 The Power of the Gospel For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
  • Rom 4:11 : 11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,
  • Rom 10:14-17 : 14 How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written,“How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news.” 16 But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says,“Lord, who has believed our report?” 17 Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.
  • Gal 3:14 : 14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
  • Eph 2:11-12 : 11 New Life Corporately Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“uncircumcision” by the so-called“circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands– 12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Ps 119:43 : 43 Do not completely deprive me of a truthful testimony, for I await your justice.
  • Joel 2:28 : 28 An Outpouring of the Spirit(3:1) After all of this I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your elderly will have prophetic dreams; your young men will see visions.
  • Mark 16:15-16 : 15 He said to them,“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
  • Luke 11:13 : 13 If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
  • Luke 24:49 : 49 And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.
  • John 6:27 : 27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life– the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”
  • John 14:16-17 : 16 Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever– 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.
  • John 14:26 : 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.
  • John 15:26 : 26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,
  • John 16:7-9 : 7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment– 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned. 12 “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you. 15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.
  • Acts 1:4 : 4 While he was with them, he declared,“Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there for what my Father promised, which you heard about from me.
  • Acts 2:16-22 : 16 But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel: 17 ‘And in the last days it will be,’ God says,‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. 19 And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke. 20 The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. 21 And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ 22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know–
  • Eph 4:21 : 21 if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.
  • 2 Cor 6:7 : 7 by truthful teaching, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
  • 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.
  • Rev 7:2 : 2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He shouted out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given permission to damage the earth and the sea:
  • 2 Tim 2:15 : 15 Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

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    11This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.