15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
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To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. …
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)In these verses the apostle represents two more excellent benefits, which belong to true believers. I. Life. The happiness is not barely a negative happiness, not to be condemned; but it is positive, it is an advancement to a life that will be the unspeakable happiness of the man ( Rom. 8:10 , 11 ): If Christ be in you . Observe, If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. He dwells in the heart by f…
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