5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
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And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; …
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)In this chapter the apostle deals plainly with those who hearkened to the judaizing teachers, who cried up the law of Moses in competition with the gospel of Christ, and endeavored to bring them under the bondage of it. To convince them of their folly, and to rectify their mistake herein, in these verses he prosecutes the comparison of a child under age, which he had touched upon in the foregoing…
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