Galatians 4:6
and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father!'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;
7so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
Cross References
Jeremiah 3:4Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, 'My father, Thou [art] the leader of my youth?
Matthew 6:6'But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who [is] in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.
Luke 11:13If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'
John 7:39and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
John 15:26'And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;
Acts 16:7having gone toward Mysia, they were trying to go on toward Bithynia, and the Spirit did not suffer them,
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 →