Galatians 4:5

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Summary

Galatians 4:5

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Redeem

That we

General references

Leviticus 25:48

Galatians 3:26

Bible References

Redeem

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree")

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

"Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.

Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

They were singing a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one was able to learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.

That we

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

But to all who have received him -- those who believe in his name -- he has given the right to become God's children

For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will --

General references

after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.