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Galatians 4:1-7
From minor heir to child
Children, Not Slaves · Galatians 4
Story guide: Paul compares an heir under guardians to believers receiving adoption through God’s Son and Spirit; this household is illustrative, not a narrated event.
Open this scene in the reader →1I say that as long as the heir is a child, he differs in nothing from a servant, though he is lord of all,
2but he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father.
3So also we, when we were children, were enslaved under the elemental principles of the world.
4But when the fullness of time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5so that he might redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
6And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father.”
7So you are no longer a servant but a son; and if a son, then also an heir through God.
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