²¹ But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us,^{(A) 22} who has put his seal on us and given^[a] us his Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.^(B)

¹³ In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit;^{(A) 14} this^[a] is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.^(B)