Galatians 4:7
so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
Young's Literal Translation
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, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,
Cross References
Genesis 17:7'And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;
Psalms 73:26Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.
Jeremiah 31:33For this [is] the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.
Lamentations 3:24My portion [is] Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.
1 Corinthians 3:21So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,
Galatians 3:26for ye are all sons of God through the 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 →