Add parallel Print Page Options

But when the fullness of time came, God sent-forth His Son— having come[a] from a woman, having come under the Law in order that He might redeem the ones under the Law, in order that we [all] might receive the adoption. And because[b] you are sons, God sent-forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts crying-out, “Abba! Father!”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:4 Or, ‘having come-into-being’ as a human, and in this sense, ‘having been born’.
  2. Galatians 4:6 Or, And that; meaning, ‘And as proof that’.

But when the set time had fully come,(A) God sent his Son,(B) born of a woman,(C) born under the law,(D) to redeem(E) those under the law, that we might receive adoption(F) to sonship.[a](G) Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son(H) into our hearts,(I) the Spirit who calls out, “Abba,[b] Father.”(J)

Read full chapter

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