Ephesians 1:14

World English Bible (2000)

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

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  • 2 Cor 1:22 : 22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
  • Eph 4:30 : 30 Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • 2 Cor 5:5 : 5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
  • Gal 4:6 : 6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • Rom 8:15-17 : 15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
  • Rom 8:23 : 23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
  • Acts 20:32 : 32 Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
  • Eph 1:12 : 12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
  • Eph 1:6-7 : 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved, 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
  • Lev 25:24-34 : 24 In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 "'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold. 26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it; 27 then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property. 28 But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property. 29 "'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. 30 If it isn't redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee. 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee. 32 "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time. 33 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
  • Ps 74:2 : 2 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
  • Ps 78:54 : 54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
  • Jer 32:7-8 : 7 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it. 8 So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh.
  • Luke 21:28 : 28 But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near."

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    3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

    4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

    5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

    6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

    7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

    8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

    9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

    10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

    11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

    12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

    13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

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    20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of God through us.

    21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

    22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

  • 5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

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    3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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    5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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    17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

    18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

    19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

    20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

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    12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

    13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

    14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

  • 15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

  • 14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

    5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,

  • 30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

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    13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

    14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

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    18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

    19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

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    7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

    8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  • 9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

  • 30 Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

  • 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

  • 23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

  • 11 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;

  • 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

  • 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

  • 13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

  • 11 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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    3 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

    4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

  • 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.