Galatians 4:6
But because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father!
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
7Therefore thou art no more a slave, but a son, and if a son, an heir also of God through Christ.
Cross References
Matthew 6:6But when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and shut thy door, to pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Luke 11:13If ye then, evil as ye are, know how to give good gifts to your children; how much more shall your Father, who is in heaven, give his Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
John 7:39(Now he spake this in reference to the Spirit, which they who believe on him should afterwards receive: for as yet the Holy Ghost was not given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
John 15:26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
Acts 16:7coming as far as Mysia, they made an effort to go unto Bythinia: but the Spirit permitted them not.
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 →