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But when the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to [the regulations of] the Law,

To purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to [a]atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God’s sons].

And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [[b]Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father!

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:5 Webster’s New International Dictionary offers this as a definition of “redeem.”
  2. Galatians 4:6 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.

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