Ephesians 1:14

New Century Version

That Holy Spirit is the guarantee that we will receive what God promised for his people until God gives full freedom to those who are his—to bring praise to God’s glory.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:5

This is what God made us for, and he has given us the Spirit to be a guarantee for this new life.

2 Corinthians 1:22

He put his mark on us to show that we are his, and he put his Spirit in our hearts to be a guarantee for all he has promised.

Ephesians 4:30

And do not make the Holy Spirit sad. The Spirit is God’s proof that you belong to him. God gave you the Spirit to show that God will make you free when the final day comes.

Galatians 4:6

Since you are God’s children, God sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, and the Spirit cries out, “Father.”

Romans 8:23

Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God’s promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children, which means our bodies will be made free.

Ephesians 1:12

We are the first people who hoped in Christ, and we were chosen so that we would bring praise to God’s glory.

Acts 20:32

“Now I am putting you in the care of God and the message about his grace. It is able to give you strength, and it will give you the blessings God has for all his holy people.

Psalm 78:54

So God brought them to his holy land, to the mountain country he took with his own power.

Psalm 74:2

Remember the people you bought long ago. You saved us, and we are your very own. After all, you live on Mount Zion.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, royal priests, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession. You were chosen to tell about the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

Acts 20:28

Be careful for yourselves and for all the people the Holy Spirit has given to you to oversee. You must be like shepherds to the church of God, which he bought with the death of his own son.

Luke 21:28

When these things begin to happen, look up and hold your heads high, because the time when God will free you is near!”

1 Corinthians 1:30

Because of God you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God. In Christ we are put right with God, and have been made holy, and have been set free from sin.

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we were chosen to be God’s people, because from the very beginning God had decided this in keeping with his plan. And he is the One who makes everything agree with what he decides and wants.