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Galatians 4:7

Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Updated King James 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

6And because all of you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit (o. pneuma) of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

8Nevertheless then, when all of you knew not God, all of you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto you, and to your seed after you.

Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Jeremiah 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Lamentations 3:24The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

1 Corinthians 3:21Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;

Galatians 3:26For all of you are all the children of God by faith 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 →

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