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Passage Guide | Ephesians 4:30 › Cross References​

	The Lexham English Bible
Genesis 6:3	And Yahweh said, “My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
Genesis 6:6	And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart.
Psalm 51:11	Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalm 78:40	How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in the wasteland!
Isaiah 7:13	Then he said, “Hear, house of David! Is it too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary?
Isaiah 63:10	But they were the ones who rebelled, and they grieved his Holy Spirit, so he became an enemy to them; he himself fought against them.
Ezekiel 16:43	Because you did not remember the days of your childhood and you made me angry with all of these. And in turn I, look, I will return your way upon your head,’ declares the Lord Yahweh, ‘and did you not do wickedness in addition to all of your detestable things?
John 1:33	And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, ‘The one upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him—this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
John 3:33	The one who accepts his testimony has attested that God is true.
John 6:27	Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one.”
Acts 2:4	And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit gave them ability to speak out.
Romans 8:9	But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.
Romans 8:23	Not only this, but we ourselves also, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves while we await eagerly our adoption, the redemption of our body.
2 Corinthians 1:22	who also sealed us and gave the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
2 Corinthians 5:5	Now the one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit.
Galatians 5:25	If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit.
Ephesians 1:7	in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace,
Ephesians 1:13–14	13 in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also when you believed you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.
Philippians 1:6	convinced of this same thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it until the day of Christ Jesus,
1 Thessalonians 5:19	Do not quench the Spirit.
Titus 3:5	he saved us, not by deeds of righteousness that we have done, but because of his mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 10:29	How much worse punishment do you think the person will be considered worthy of who treats with disdain the Son of God and who considers ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy and who insults the Spirit of grace?
Revelation 3:22	The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ ”

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[Lori Jane]

4:30 do not grieve the Holy Spirit Paul seems to be indicating that poor treatment of others can constrain the work of the Spirit—essentially denying or resisting God’s indwelling presence (compare Isa 63:10).


Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (Eph 4:30). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

 

[Lori Jane]

Grieving the Holy Spirit​

As Paul lists several issues of conduct to avoid as believers in Eph 4:25–32, he interjects a warning: “do not grieve (lypeō) the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption” (Eph 4:30). These words are unanticipated by the preceding verses, adding to the difficulty of interpreting what it means to “grieve” the Spirit. Although Acts cautions against “resisting” the Holy Spirit (Acts 7:51), and Paul tells the Thessalonians not to “quench” the Spirit (1 Thess 5:19), the notion of “grieving” the Holy Spirit is not found elsewhere in the nt.​

As most commentators point out, however, the ot contains similar language that likely serves as the background to Eph 4:30. Psalm 106:33, for example, says that Israel made God’s Spirit bitter when they rebelled at Meribah, and Moses sinned against God (compare Num 20:10). According to Isaiah 63:9–14, God’s people rebelled and “grieved” the Holy Spirit. Although the Septuagint uses the Greek word paroxynō rather than lypeō to translate the Hebrew atsav, in both Isaiah and Eph 4:30, “grieving” the Holy Spirit is associated with an inappropriate response to God’s “redemption” of His people (compare lytroō in lxx Isa 63:9 to apolytrōsis in Eph 4:30). This background shapes how many commentators understand Eph 4:30, though they offer various interpretations of the precise meaning of “grieving” within the context of Ephesians. Ultimately, “to grieve” the Spirit seems to be the opposite of Paul’s exhortation in Eph 4:3 to “maintain” the unity of the Spirit.​

• In his lengthy excursus on “The Sin against the Spirit,” Barth concludes that the phrase may simply be synonymous with “sinning against the Spirit” (as in Mark 3:28–30; Acts 5:3, 9; 7:51). He argues that Eph 4:30 contains a motivation for all the other warnings and exhortation in the section: To sin against the Spirit hinders the work of unity being promoted in the latter half of Ephesians.





Brown, D. R., Custis, M., & Whitehead, M. M. (2013). Ephesians. (D. Mangum, Ed.) (Eph 4:30). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.