Galatians 4:5

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to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

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  • Eph 1:5 : 5 He did this by predestining us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will–
  • Rom 8:23 : 23 Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
  • Gal 3:26 : 26 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.
  • John 1:12 : 12 But to all who have received him– those who believe in his name– he has given the right to become God’s children
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
  • Rom 8:19 : 19 For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Luke 1:68 : 68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.
  • Gal 4:7 : 7 So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.
  • Gal 4:21 : 21 An Appeal from Allegory Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us(because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • Col 1:13-20 : 13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 The Supremacy of Christ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, 16 for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him– all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers– all things were created through him and for him. 17 He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him. 18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son 20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross– through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  • Heb 9:12 : 12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.
  • Heb 9:15 : 15 And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.
  • 1 Pet 1:18-20 : 18 You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold, 19 but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
  • Rev 14:3 : 3 and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one was able to learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.

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    1Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

    2But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

    3So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

    4But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

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    6And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls“Abba! Father!”

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    14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

    15For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”

    16The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.

    17And if children, then heirs(namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)– if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

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    5He did this by predestining us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will–

    6to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

    7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace

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    22But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given– because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ– to those who believe.

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    24Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

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    30But what does the scripture say?“Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman.

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    13He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

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    21An Appeal from Allegory Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

    22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

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    18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

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    29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.

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    28But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

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    16yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.