And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba![a] (Father!),” so that you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir through God.

Do Not Be Enslaved Again

But at that time when you[b] did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:6 “Abba” is Aramaic for “father”
  2. Galatians 4:8 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“know”) which is understood as temporal