Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago, which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage. Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.
Ephesians 1:14 - New Revised Standard Version this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God's own people, to the praise of his glory. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That [Spirit] is the guarantee of our inheritance [the firstfruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it–to the praise of His glory. American Standard Version (1901) which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, unto the praise of his glory. Common English Bible The Holy Spirit is the down payment on our inheritance, which is applied toward our redemption as God’s own people, resulting in the honor of God’s glory. Catholic Public Domain Version He is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the acquisition of redemption, to the praise of his glory. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory. |
Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago, which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage. Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.
And he brought them to his holy hill, to the mountain that his right hand had won.
Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
And now I commend you to God and to the message of his grace, a message that is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all who are sanctified.
and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
by putting his seal on us and giving us his Spirit in our hearts as a first installment.
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will,
so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.