26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
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Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: …
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. …
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-92)The apostle having just before been speaking of the promise made to Abraham, and representing that as the rule of our justification, and not the law, lest they should think he did too much derogate from the law, and render it altogether useless, he thence takes occasion to discourse of the design and tendency of it, and to acquaint us for what purposes it was given. It might be asked, “If that pro…
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