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THE MESSAGE
Galatians 4:6
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Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
And since we are his kids, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. Now we call out, "Abba, Daddy!"
And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.
But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"
And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.
And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of His Son to enter your hearts and cry "Abba! our Father!"
And because yee are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the spirit of his Sonne into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.
And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba! Father!
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and because ye are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying Abba, that is, father;
And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba! Father!"
And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
Be cause ye are sonnes God hath sent the sprete of his sonne in to oure hertes which cryeth Abba father.
And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'
Since you are God's children, God sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, and the Spirit cries out, "Father."
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls "Abba! Father!"
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"
Now that we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. And his Spirit tells us that God is our Father.
Now because you are sons, God has sent forth into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, the Spirit who cries out, "Abba!" (that is, "Dear Father!").
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
And because ye are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the Spirit of his Sonne into your heartes, which crieth, Abba, Father.
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And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"
And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, "Abba, Father."
Because you are the sons of God, He has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts. The Spirit cries, "Father!"
And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
And, because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, exclaiming, Abba! Oh Father!
And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba! (Father!),"
Because ye are sonnes, God hath sent the spirite of his sonne into your heartes, crying, Abba, father.
Since you are now God's children, he has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts. The Spirit cries out, " Abba, Father."
Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba! Father!"
To show that you are his children, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who cries out, "Father, my Father."
And for ye ben Goddis sones, God sente his spirit in to youre hertis, criynge, Abba, fadir.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
God: Luke 11:13, John 7:39, John 14:16, Romans 5:5, Romans 8:15-17, 2 Corinthians 1:22, Ephesians 1:13, Ephesians 4:30
the Spirit: John 3:34, John 15:26, John 16:7, Romans 5:5, Romans 8:9, Romans 8:15, 1 Corinthians 15:45, Philippians 1:19, 1 Peter 1:11, Revelation 19:10
crying: Isaiah 44:3-5, Jeremiah 3:4, Jeremiah 3:19, Matthew 6:6-9, Luke 11:2, Romans 8:26, Romans 8:27, Ephesians 2:18, Ephesians 6:18, Hebrews 4:14-16, Jude 1:20
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:6 - thy father Psalms 51:12 - free Hosea 1:10 - Ye are the sons Matthew 3:14 - I have Matthew 6:9 - Our Mark 14:36 - Abba Luke 15:22 - a ring John 1:12 - to them John 4:23 - in spirit John 14:17 - shall John 15:15 - I call John 20:17 - your Father Romans 8:14 - led 2 Corinthians 3:17 - where Galatians 3:14 - might Galatians 3:26 - General Galatians 4:7 - thou Galatians 5:18 - if Ephesians 1:5 - unto Ephesians 1:14 - the earnest Philippians 2:1 - if any fellowship Hebrews 10:19 - Having 1 John 3:1 - that 1 John 3:2 - now are we the 1 John 3:24 - we 1 John 5:10 - hath the 1 John 5:13 - ye may know
Cross-References
Adam slept with Eve his wife. She conceived and had Cain. She said, "I've gotten a man, with God 's help!"
Time passed. Cain brought an offering to God from the produce of his farm. Abel also brought an offering, but from the firstborn animals of his herd, choice cuts of meat. God liked Abel and his offering, but Cain and his offering didn't get his approval. Cain lost his temper and went into a sulk.
Cain had words with his brother. They were out in the field; Cain came at Abel his brother and killed him.
Cain said to God , "My punishment is too much. I can't take it! You've thrown me off the land and I can never again face you. I'm a homeless wanderer on Earth and whoever finds me will kill me."
"Come. Sit down. Let's argue this out." This is God 's Message: "If your sins are blood-red, they'll be snow-white. If they're red like crimson, they'll be like wool. If you'll willingly obey, you'll feast like kings. But if you're willful and stubborn, you'll die like dogs." That's right. God says so.
"What a generation you turned out to be! Didn't I tell you? Didn't I warn you? Have I let you down, Israel? Am I nothing but a dead-end street? Why do my people say, ‘Good riddance! From now on we're on our own'? Young women don't forget their jewelry, do they? Brides don't show up without their veils, do they? But my people forget me. Day after day after day they never give me a thought.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And because ye are sons,.... That is of God, so some copies read; and the Ethiopic version, "inasmuch as ye are his sons"; not in so high a sense as Christ is the Son of God; nor in so low a sense as all men are his offspring; nor in such sense as magistrates are the children of the most High; nor merely on account of a profession of religion, as the "sons of God" was a phrase very early used of the worshippers of the true God; but by virtue of adoption, and which is not owing to the merits of men, who are by nature children of wrath, but to the free rich sovereign grace of God. It is a privilege and blessing of grace in which all the three persons are concerned. The Father has predestinated to it, and in the covenant has provided and laid it up; he set up his Son as the pattern to which these sons should be conformed, and proposed the glory of his own grace, as the end; by virtue of which act of grace they were considered as the children of God, as early as the gift of them to Christ; and so by him when he partook of their flesh and blood, and died to gather them together who were scattered abroad; see Hebrews 2:13. The Son of God has also an hand in this affair; for through his espousing their persons, they become the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty; and through his assumption of their nature they become his brethren, and so to be in the relation of sons to God; through his redemption they receive the adoption of children, and at his hands the privilege, the power itself, to become such. The Spirit of God not only regenerates them, which is an evidence of their sonship, but as a spirit of adoption manifests it to them, works faith in them to receive it, and frequently witnesses to the truth of it; all which show how any come and are known to be the sons of God. This is a privilege that exceeds all others; it is more to be a son than to be a saint; angels are saints, but not sons, they are servants; it is more to be a child of God, than to be redeemed, pardoned, and justified; it is great grace to redeem from slavery, to pardon criminals, and justify the ungodly; but it is another and an higher act of grace to make them sons; and which makes them infinitely more honourable, than to be the sons and daughters of the greatest potentate upon earth; yea, gives them an honour which Adam had not in innocence, nor the angels in heaven, who though sons by creation, yet not by adoption. The consequence, and so the evidence of it, follows,
God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father. The Syriac and Arabic versions read, "our Father"; all the three divine persons here appear, as having a concern in this business, as before observed; here are God and his Son, and the Spirit of his Son, said to be sent; by whom is designed not any work of his upon the heart, nor any of his gifts and graces; but he himself in person, even the same Spirit of God that moved upon the face of the waters at the creation of the world, and moved holy men of God to write the Scriptures; who formed and filled the human nature of Christ, and descended on him as a dove; and by whom Christ and his apostles wrought their miracles; and who is called the Spirit of his Son; as he is frequently by the Jews g,
רוחו של מלך משיח, "the Spirit of the King Messiah"; and sometimes h רוח מימריה, "the Spirit of his word", the essential word of God; because he proceeds from him as from the Father, and because he dwells in him, in an eminent manner, as Mediator, and is sent by virtue of his mediation and intercession; and he is the rather mentioned under this character, because adoption proceeds upon the natural sonship of Christ, and is what is the peculiar office of the Spirit to testify. When he is said to be "sent", it does not suppose any local motion or change of place in him, who is a spirit infinite, immense, and omnipresent; nor any inferiority to the Father that sends him, or to the Son whose Spirit he is; for he is one God with the Father and Son, and with the Father is the sender of Christ,
Isaiah 48:16, but it regards his peculiar office in this affair of adoption, by agreement of all the three persons; the Father predestinated to it, the Son redeems, that it might be received, and the Spirit is sent to discover, apply, and bear witness to it; which is a wondrous instance of the grace of God. The place where he is sent is "into" the "heart": where he is as a principle of spiritual life, and which he furnishes and supplies with all grace; where he dwells as in his temple, and is the evidence of God's dwelling there, and also of interest in Christ; is there as a pledge and an earnest of future glory; and the whole is a surprising instance of condescending grace. The work he does there is various, and consists of divers parts; as convincing of sin, and righteousness, working faith, and acting the part of a comforter; but what is here referred to, is the discharge of his office as a spirit of adoption, "crying Abba, Father". The word Abba is an Hebrew, or rather a Syriac or Chaldee word, signifying "father"; and which is added for explanation sake; and its repetition may denote the vehemency of filial affection, the strength of faith and confidence as to interest in the relation; and being expressed both in Hebrew and Greek, may show that God is the Father both of Jews and Gentiles, and that there is but one Father of all; and if it might not be thought too curious an observation, it may be remarked that the word "Abba", read backwards or forwards, is the same pronunciation, and may teach us that God is the Father of his people in adversity as well as in prosperity. The act of "crying", though it is here ascribed to the Spirit, yet is not properly his, but the believers; and is attributed to him because he excites, encourages, and assists them as a spirit of adoption to call God their Father; and may be understood both of the secret internal crying of the soul, or exercise of faith on God as its Father, and of an open outward invocation of him as such, with much confidence, freedom, and boldness.
g Bereshit Rabba, fol. 2. 4. & 6. 3. Vajikra Rabba, fol. 156. 4.
Isaiah 48:16- :. h Targum in 2 Chron. ii. 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And because ye are sons - As a consequence of your being adopted into the family of God, and being regarded as his sons. It follows as a part of his purpose of adoption that his children shall have the spirit of the Lord Jesus.
The Spirit of his Son - The spirit of the Lord Jesus; the spirit which animated him, or which he evinced. The idea is, that as the Lord Jesus was enabled to approach God with the language of endearment and love, so they would be. He, being the true and exalted Son of God, had the spirit appropriate to such a relation; they being adopted, and made like him, have the same spirit. The “spirit” here referred to does not mean, as I suppose: the Holy Spirit as such; nor the miraculous endowments of the Holy Spirit, but the spirit which made them like the Lord Jesus; the spirit by which they were enabled to approach God as his children, and use the reverent, and tender, and affectionate language of a child addressing a father. It is that language used by Christians when they have evidence of adoption; the expression of the warm, and elevated, and glowing emotions which they have when they can approach God as their God, and address him as their Father.
Crying - That is, the spirit thus cries, Πνεῦμα Pneuma - κράζον krazon). Compare the notes, Romans 8:26-27. In Romans 8:15 it is, “wherewith we cry.”
Abba, Father - See the note at Romans 8:15. It is said in the Babylonian Gemara, a Jewish work, that it was not permitted slaves to use the title of Abba in addressing the master of the family to which they belonged. If so, then the language which Christians are here represented as using is the language of freemen, and denotes that they are not under the servitude of sin.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Galatians 4:6. And because ye are sons — By faith in Christ Jesus, being redeemed both from the bondage and curse of the law; GOD-the Father, called generally the first person of the glorious TRINITY, hath sent forth the SPIRIT-the Holy Ghost, the second person of that Trinity, of his SON-Jesus Christ, the third person of the Trinity-crying, Abba, Father! from the fullest and most satisfactory evidence that God, the Father, Son, and Spirit, had become their portion. For the explanation of the phrase, and why the Greek and Syriac terms are joined together here, Mark 14:36; Mark 14:36; and "Romans 8:15".
