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For you didn`t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, "Abba! Father!"
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From Fear to Family
Commentators stress that Christianity replaces a "spirit of bondage" that leads to fear with a "Spirit of adoption." Before Christ, the relationship with God could feel like that of a slave to a master, governed by rules and fear of punishment. Now, believers are adopted as children, enjoying a relationship of freedom, confidence, and love with God as their Father.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The spirit of bondage. The spirit that binds you; or the spirit of a slave, that produces only fear. The slave is under constant fear and …
The spirit of adoption (πνευμα υιοθεσιας). See on this term υιοθεσια, Galatians 4:5. Both Jews and Gentiles receive thi…
19th Century
Anglican
Spirit of bondage. The Greek corresponds very closely to what we would naturally understand by the English phrase, “such a spirit …
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Baptist
For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.…
The Spirit’s ministry set forth in these verses may be thought of as his attestation, in which he confirms for believers the reality of their posit…
16th Century
Protestant
He now confirms the certainty of that confidence in which he has already instructed the faithful to rest secure; and he does this by mentioning the…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear
By "the spirit of bondage" is meant, not …
If the Spirit is in us, Christ is in us. He dwells in the heart by faith. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has be…
13th Century
Catholic
After stating that the life of glory, which will exclude all mortality from our bodies, will be given to us through the Holy Spirit, the Apostle no…
