And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Do not quench the Spirit.
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.
And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
And he said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also?
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.
Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
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