Galatians 4:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Galatians 4:7 —

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Cross-References

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Romans 8:16-17
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: …
Galatians 3:29
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Galatians 3:26
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 3:21-23
Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; …
Galatians 4:5-6
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. …

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

Ga 4:1-31. The Same Subject Continued: Illustration of Our Subjection to the Law Only till Christ Came, from the Subjection of an Heir to His Guardian till He Is of Age. Peter’s Good Will to the Galatians Should Lead Them to the Same Good Will to Him as They Had at First Shown. Their Desire to Be under the Law Shown by the Allegory of Isaac and Ishmael to Be Inconsistent with Their Gospel Liberty.…