Galatians 4:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

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  • Gal 3:29-4:2 : 29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise. 1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
  • Gal 4:5-6 : 5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children. 6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba,{Abba is a Greek spelling for the Chaldee word for "Father" or "Daddy" used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.} Father!"
  • Rom 8:16-17 : 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
  • 1 Cor 3:21-23 : 21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, 23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
  • 2 Cor 6:16-18 : 16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people." 17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, And be separate,' says the Lord, 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you. 18 I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."
  • Gal 3:26 : 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart fails, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
  • Jer 10:16 : 16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.
  • Gal 4:31-5:1 : 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman. 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
  • Lam 3:24 : 24 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
  • Gen 15:1 : 1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
  • Ps 16:5 : 5 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
  • Rev 21:7 : 7 He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
  • Jer 32:38-41 : 38 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: 39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me. 41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

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  • Gal 4:5-6
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    5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

    6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba,{Abba is a Greek spelling for the Chaldee word for "Father" or "Daddy" used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.} Father!"

  • Gal 4:1-2
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    1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

    2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

  • Gal 3:25-26
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    25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

    26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Gal 3:28-29
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    28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

    29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

  • Rom 8:14-17
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    14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

    15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba{Abba is a Chaldee word for father or daddy, often used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.}! Father!"

    16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

    17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

  • Gal 4:30-31
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    30 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."

    31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

  • John 8:35-36
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    35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

    36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

  • 16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

  • Gal 4:8-9
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    8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

    9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elements, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

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    21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

    22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

    23 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.

  • 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

  • 22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

  • 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

    2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

  • 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

  • Heb 12:7-8
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    7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

    8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

  • 23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

  • 18 I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."

  • 7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

  • 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Gospel.

  • 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

  • 30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

  • 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

  • 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • Gal 4:22-23
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    22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

    23 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

  • 6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

  • 14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

  • 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

  • 16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

  • 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

  • 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

  • 5 For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son, Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, And he will be to me a Son?"

  • 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,