Galatians 4:6

Because ye are sonnes, God hath sent the spirite of his sonne into your heartes, crying, Abba, father.

Bible (Bishops')

In The King James Version

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

In Context

5To redeeme them that were vnder the lawe, that we myght receaue the adoption of chyldren.

7Wherfore thou art no more a seruaunt, but a sonne: If thou be a sonne, thou art also an heire of God, through Christ.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:6But when thou prayest, enter into thy chaumber, and when thou hast shut thy dore, pray to thy father, which is in secrete, and thy father which seeth in secrete, shall rewarde thee openly.

Luke 11:13If ye then, being euyll, can geue good gyftes vnto your chyldren, howe muche more shall your father of heauen geue the holy spirite, to them that desire [it] of hym.

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 →

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