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And because you are sons, God has sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, crying out “Abba! Father!” Therefore, you are no longer a slave but a son; and if you are a son, then through God you are also an heir.

No Return to Slavery.[a] Previously, when you did not know God, you were slaves to forces who were not really gods at all.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:8 The baptized have suddenly become concerned with the calendar of Jewish feasts or of pagan cults; do they, then, believe themselves to be slaves of the forces that they think rule the world and do they therefore desire to conciliate those forces by rites? God is not to be confused with any force, known or unknown, of this world.