Galatians 4:6-8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁶ And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our^[a] hearts, crying, “Abba!^[b] Father!”^{(A) 7} So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir through God.^[c]

Paul Reproves the Galatians

⁸ Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.^(B)