Galatians 4:7
And so now he is not a servant, but a son. But if he is a son, then he is also an heir, through God.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
In Context
8But then, certainly, while ignorant of God, you served those who, by nature, are not gods.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and with your offspring after you in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Jeremiah 31:33But this will be the covenant that I will form with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord: I will give my law to their inner most being, and I will write it upon their heart. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Lamentations 3:24HETH. “The Lord is my portion,” said my soul. Because of this, I will wait for him.
1 Corinthians 3:21And so, let no one glory in men.
Galatians 3:26For you are all sons of God, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:2-8
The Redemption by Christ. ( a. d. 56.) 1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6 And… Read the whole commentary →