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In all of the following verses, the word “earnest” is derived from the Koine Greek word “arrabon”. Thayer’s Greek English Lexicon defines this ancient word as meaning “money which in purchases is given as a pledge or downpayment that the full amount will subsequently be paid.” In other words, the spark of the Holy Spirit which we each receive in this current life is sort of like a downpayment, preview or sample of the full life in the Spirit which we shall someday experience in the wonderful City of God, New Jerusalem. It is just a foretaste of what is to come.

“‭‭Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, ‭is‭ God;‭ Who hath also sealed us, and given the EARNEST OF THE SPIRIT in our hearts.”
2 Corinthians 1:21-22, KJV

“In whom ye also ‭trusted‭, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,‭ Which is the EARNEST OF OUR INHERITANCE until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
Ephesians 1:13-14, KJV

“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle [meaning our physical body] were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the EARNEST OF THE SPIRIT. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 4:18-5:8, KJV

If you would like more info regarding the origin of these KJV Bible verse lists, go to https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/.

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