New American Standard Bible 2020

Galatians 4:6-10

6Because you are sons, 1God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “2Abba! 3Father!” 7Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and 4if a son, then an heir 5through God.

8However at that time, 6when you did not know God, you were 7slaves to 8those which by nature are not gods. 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be 9known by God, 10how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless 11 12elementary principles, to which you want to be enslaved all over again? 10You 13meticulously observe days and months and seasons and years.

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Notes

1. Galatians 4:6 Acts 16:7; Rom 5:5; 8:9, 16; 2 Cor 3:17 ↩
2. Galatians 4:6 Mark 14:36; Rom 8:15 ↩
3. Galatians 4:6 I.e., Paul’s translation of the Aramaic Abba ↩
4. Galatians 4:7 Rom 8:17 ↩
5. Galatians 4:7 I.e., through the gracious act of ↩
6. Galatians 4:8 1 Cor 1:21; Eph 2:12; 1 Thess 4:5; 2 Thess 1:8 ↩
7. Galatians 4:8 Gal 4:3 ↩
8. Galatians 4:8 2 Chr 13:9; Is 37:19; Jer 2:11; 1 Cor 8:4f; 10:20 ↩
9. Galatians 4:9 1 Cor 8:3 ↩
10. Galatians 4:9 Col 2:20 ↩
11. Galatians 4:9 Or rudimentary teachings ↩
12. Galatians 4:9 Gal 4:3 ↩
13. Galatians 4:10 Rom 14:5; Col 2:16 ↩

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