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And, because you are sons, God sent out the spirit of his son into our hearts, calling out “Abba, Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son! And, if you’re a son, you are an heir, through God.

The true God and the false gods

However, at that stage you didn’t know God, and so you were enslaved to beings that, in their proper nature, are not gods.

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Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son(A) into our hearts,(B) the Spirit who calls out, “Abba,[a] Father.”(C) So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.(D)

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

Formerly, when you did not know God,(E) you were slaves(F) to those who by nature are not gods.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:6 Aramaic for Father