Ephesians 1:14

Weymouth NT

that Spirit being a pledge and foretaste of our inheritance, in anticipation of its full redemption–the inheritance which He has purchased to be specially His for the extolling of His glory.

Cross References

Luke 21:28

But when all this is beginning to take place, grieve no longer. Lift up your heads, because your deliverance is drawing near.«

Acts 20:28

»Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has placed you to take the oversight for Him and act as shepherds to the Church of God, which He has bought with His own blood.«

Acts 20:32

»And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace. He is able to build you up and to give you your inheritance among His people.«

Romans 8:23

And more than that, we ourselves, though we possess the Spirit as a foretaste and pledge of the glorious future, yet we ourselves inwardly sigh, as we wait and long for open recognition as sons through the deliverance of our bodies.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But you –and it is all God's doing– are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;

2 Corinthians 1:22

and He has also set His seal upon us, and has put His Spirit into our hearts as a pledge and foretaste of future blessing.

2 Corinthians 5:5

And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.

Galatians 4:6

And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of His Son to enter your hearts and cry »Abba! our Father!«

Ephesians 1:11

In Him we Jews have been made heirs, having been chosen beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose might carries out in everything the design of His own will,

Ephesians 1:12

so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His glorious attributes–we who were the first to fix our hopes on Christ.

Ephesians 4:30

And beware of grieving the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed in preparation for the day of Redemption.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a priesthood of kingly lineage, a holy nation, a people belonging specially to God, that you may make known the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.