Galatians 4:6

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Summary

Galatians 4:6

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

The spirit

Crying

General references

Galatians 3:26

Bible References

The spirit

For God sent Him, and He speaks God’s words, since He gives the Spirit without measure.

“When the Counselor comes, the One I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.

This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being;

the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

because I know this will lead to my deliverance

through your prayers and help from the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

They inquired into what time or what circumstances the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when He testified in advance to the messianic sufferings

and the glories that would follow.

Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow slave with you and your brothers who have the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Crying

For I will pour water on the thirsty land
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants
and My blessing on your offspring.

Have you not lately called to Me, “My Father.
You were my friend in my youth.

But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

He said to them, “Whenever you pray, say:

Father,

Your name be honored as holy.

Your kingdom come.

In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us

with unspoken groanings.

For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert in this with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to the confession.

But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit,

General references

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