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Galatians 5:1

Context
Freedom of the Believer

5:1 For freedom 1  Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke 2  of slavery.

Romans 8:15

Context
8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, 3  but you received the Spirit of adoption, 4  by whom 5  we cry, “Abba, Father.”
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[5:1]  1 tn Translating the dative as “For freedom” shows the purpose for Christ setting us free; however, it is also possible to take the phrase in the sense of means or instrument (“with [or by] freedom”), referring to the freedom mentioned in 4:31 and implied throughout the letter.

[5:1]  2 sn Here the yoke figuratively represents the burdensome nature of slavery.

[8:15]  3 tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”

[8:15]  4 tn The Greek term υἱοθεσία (Juioqesia) was originally a legal technical term for adoption as a son with full rights of inheritance. BDAG 1024 s.v. notes, “a legal t.t. of ‘adoption’ of children, in our lit., i.e. in Paul, only in a transferred sense of a transcendent filial relationship between God and humans (with the legal aspect, not gender specificity, as major semantic component).”

[8:15]  5 tn Or “in that.”



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