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To purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to [a]atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God’s sons].

And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [[b]Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father!

Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir [c]by the aid of God, through Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:5 Webster’s New International Dictionary offers this as a definition of “redeem.”
  2. Galatians 4:6 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  3. Galatians 4:7 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

to redeem(A) those under the law, that we might receive adoption(B) to sonship.[a](C) Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son(D) into our hearts,(E) the Spirit who calls out, “Abba,[b] Father.”(F) So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:5 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a legal term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture.
  2. Galatians 4:6 Aramaic for Father