6And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
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For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. …
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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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