Ephesians 4:30

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Don't make God's Spirit sad. The Spirit makes you sure that some day you will be free from your sins.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Don't turn away God's Spirit

Isaiah 63:10

Then the LORD's people turned against him and made his Holy Spirit sad. So he became their enemy and attacked them.

Genesis 6:6

He was very sorry that he had made them,

Acts 7:51

You stubborn and hard-headed people! You are always fighting against the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.

Romans 8:23

The Spirit makes us sure about what we will be in the future. But now we groan silently, while we wait for God to show that we are his children. This means that our bodies will also be set free.

Romans 8:11

Yet God raised Jesus to life! God's Spirit now lives in you, and he will raise you to life by his Spirit.

Mark 3:5

Jesus was angry as he looked around at the people. Yet he felt sorry for them because they were so stubborn. Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his bad hand was healed.

Isaiah 43:24

You have not brought delicious spices for me or given me the best part of your sacrificed animals. Instead, you burden me down with your terrible sins.

Psalm 78:40

While they were in the desert, they often rebelled and made God sad.

Genesis 6:3

Then the LORD said, “I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone for ever. No one will live for more than one hundred and twenty years.”

Isaiah 7:13

Then I said: Listen, every one of you in the royal family of David. You have already tried my patience. Now you are trying God's patience by refusing to ask for proof.

Ezekiel 16:43

You made me furious by doing all these disgusting things and by forgetting how I took care of you when you were young. Then you made things worse by acting like a prostitute. You must be punished! I, the LORD God, have spoken.

Psalm 95:10

Then God got tired of them and said, “You never show good sense, and you don't understand what I want you to do.”

1 Corinthians 1:30

You are God's children. He sent Christ Jesus to save us and to make us wise, acceptable, and holy.

Hebrews 3:17

Who were the people that made God angry for forty years? Weren't they the ones that sinned and died in the desert?

1 Corinthians 15:54

The bodies we now have are weak and can die. But they will be changed into bodies that are eternal. Then the Scriptures will come true, “Death has lost the battle!

Hosea 13:14

Should I, the LORD, rescue you from death and the grave? No! I call death and the grave to strike you like a plague. I refuse to show mercy.

Judges 10:16

Then the Israelites got rid of the idols of the foreign gods, and they began worshipping only the LORD. Finally, there came a time when the LORD could no longer stand to see them suffer.

Luke 21:28

When all this starts happening, stand up straight and be brave. You will soon be set free.

John 3:33

But everyone who does believe him has shown that God is truthful.

Hebrews 10:29

But it is much worse to dishonour God's Son and to disgrace the blood of the promise that made us holy. And it is just as bad to insult the Holy Spirit, who shows us mercy.