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    "alternate_names": "Sealing of the Spirit; earnest of the Spirit; guarantee of inheritance",
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    "technical_definition": "An assurance imagery pattern in which a seal marks ownership or authentication, and pledge/guarantee language presents the Holy Spirit as the present securing foretaste of the believer’s final inheritance and redemption.",
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      "reference": "Rom. 4:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "sign and seal of righteousness",
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      "reference": "John 6:27",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Father has set his seal",
      "explanation": "Seal imagery marks the Son as authenticated by the Father.",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 9:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "seal of my apostleship",
      "explanation": "Seal language describes the Corinthian believers as evidence of Paul’s apostolic work.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "2 Cor. 1:21-22",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "sealed and given the Spirit",
      "explanation": "Sealing and guarantee imagery presents God’s confirming claim on believers.",
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      "reference": "2 Cor. 5:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Spirit as guarantee",
      "explanation": "Guarantee imagery presents the Spirit as the pledge of resurrection life to come.",
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      "reference": "Eph. 1:13-14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "sealed with the promised Spirit",
      "explanation": "Seal and guarantee imagery connects faith, the Spirit, and inheritance assurance.",
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      "reference": "Eph. 4:30",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "sealed for the day of redemption",
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      "reference": "2 Tim. 2:19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "God’s firm foundation bears this seal",
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      "reference": "Rev. 7:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "seal the servants of God",
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      "reference": "Rev. 9:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "seal of God on their foreheads",
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