The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.

这圣灵是我们得基业的凭据，直等到神之民被赎，使他的荣耀得着称赞。

这圣灵是我们得基业的凭据，直等到上帝的子民得救赎，使他的荣耀得到称赞。

这圣灵是我们得基业的凭据，直等到神的子民得救赎，使他的荣耀得到称赞。

圣灵是我们领受产业的担保，直到上帝的子民得到救赎，使祂的荣耀受到颂赞。

这圣灵是我们得基业的凭据，直到神的产业得赎，使他的荣耀得着颂赞。

圣灵是我们得继业的预付凭据，直到属神的子民得赎，归于他荣耀的称赞。

這聖靈是我們得基業的憑據，直等到神之民被贖，使他的榮耀得着稱讚。

這聖靈是我們得基業的憑據，直等到上帝的子民得救贖，使他的榮耀得到稱讚。

這聖靈是我們得基業的憑據，直等到神的子民得救贖，使他的榮耀得到稱讚。

聖靈是我們領受產業的擔保，直到上帝的子民得到救贖，使祂的榮耀受到頌讚。

這聖靈是我們得基業的憑據，直到神的產業得贖，使他的榮耀得著頌讚。

聖靈是我們得嗣業的質定，直等到做上帝產業的得贖放，使他的榮耀得稱讚。

聖靈是我們得繼業的預付憑據，直到屬神的子民得贖，歸於他榮耀的稱讚。

即我儕嗣業之質、迨上帝之業見贖、其榮則得讚頌、

即我儕得嗣業之質、至於贖日而頌讚之、

即我儕所得嗣業之質、待天主之民得贖、使人頌讚天主之榮、○

聖神者、即吾儕選民承業蒙贖之質也。此亦所以發揚天主之光輝云耳。

who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession— to the praise of his glory.

The Spirit marks us as God’s own. We can now be sure that someday we will receive all that God has promised. That will happen after God sets all his people completely free. All these things will bring praise to his glory.

who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

The Holy Spirit is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.

who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.

who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

He is the down payment of our inheritance, for the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

and he has identified us as his own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts as the first installment that guarantees everything he has promised us.

And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.

God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him,“ Abba, Father.”For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out,“ Abba, Father.”

And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us.

God’s purpose was that we Jews who were the first to trust in Christ would bring praise and glory to God.

“ And now I entrust you to God and the message of his grace that is able to build you up and give you an inheritance with all those he has set apart for himself.

So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins.

But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

“ With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back.If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him.If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back,he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land.But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land.“ Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back.But if it is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the walled town cannot be reversed. It will become the permanent property of the buyer. It will not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.But a house in a village— a settlement without fortified walls— will be treated like property in the countryside. Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.“ The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted to them.And any property that is sold by the Levites— all houses within the Levitical towns— must be returned in the Year of Jubilee. After all, the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the only property they own in all Israel.The open pastureland around the Levitical towns may never be sold. It is their permanent possession.

Remember that we are the people you chose long ago, the tribe you redeemed as your own special possession! And remember Jerusalem, your home here on earth.

He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this land of hills he had won for them.

So when all these things begin to happen, stand and look up, for your salvation is near!”

“ Your cousin Hanamel son of Shallum will come and say to you,‘ Buy my field at Anathoth. By law you have the right to buy it before it is offered to anyone else.’”Then, just as the Lord had said he would, my cousin Hanamel came and visited me in the prison. He said,“ Please buy my field at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. By law you have the right to buy it before it is offered to anyone else, so buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that the message I had heard was from the Lord.

“ So guard yourselves and God’s people. Feed and shepherd God’s flock— his church, purchased with his own blood— over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as leaders.