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Gal. 4:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Adoption,

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Gal. 4:21• ²¹Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law? (Gal. 4:21)

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Gal. 3:13• ¹³Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one hanged upon a tree,) (Gal. 3:13)

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Matt. 20:28• ²⁸as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many. (Matt. 20:28)

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Luke 1:68• ⁶⁸Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, because he has visited and wrought redemption for his people, (Luke 1:68)

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Acts 20:28• ²⁸Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own. (Acts 20:28)

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Eph. 1:7• ⁷in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace; (Eph. 1:7)

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Eph. 5:2• ²and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour. (Eph. 5:2)

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Col. 1:13‑20• ¹³who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:
¹⁴in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;
¹⁵who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;
¹⁶because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.
¹⁷And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him.
¹⁸And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things:
¹⁹for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell,
²⁰and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross--by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens. (Col. 1:13‑20)

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Titus 2:14• ¹⁴who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works. (Titus 2:14)

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Heb. 1:3• ³who being the effulgence of his glory and the expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high, (Heb. 1:3)

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Heb. 9:12,15• ¹²nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the holy of holies, having found an eternal redemption.
¹⁵And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. (Heb. 9:12,15)

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1 Peter 1:18‑20• ¹⁸knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,
¹⁹but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ,
²⁰foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes, (1 Peter 1:18‑20)

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1 Peter 3:18• ¹⁸for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, (1 Peter 3:18)

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Rev. 5:9• ⁹And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou hast been slain, and hast redeemed to God, by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, (Rev. 5:9)

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Rev. 14:3• ³and they sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn that song save the hundred and forty-four thousand who were bought from the earth. (Rev. 14:3)

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Gal. 4:7• ⁷So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God. (Gal. 4:7)

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Gal. 3:26• ²⁶for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus. (Gal. 3:26)

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John 1:12• ¹²but as many as received him, to them gave he the right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name; (John 1:12)

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Rom. 8:19,23• ¹⁹For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:
²³And not only that, but even *we* ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, that is the redemption of our body. (Rom. 8:19,23)

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Rom. 9:4• ⁴who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises; (Rom. 9:4)

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Eph. 1:5• ⁵having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (Eph. 1:5)

• The claims of the law having been met, the way is clear for the believer to come into the blessing of a son. (“Galatians 4” by H. Smith)

• The claims of the law having been met, the way is clear for the believer to come into the blessing of a son, as the word says, "to receive sonship"; not only to be a child, but to come into the place of liberty, and favor that belongs to an heir. (“Galatians 4” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonshipi.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "adoption." It is receiving the position of sonship as a gift. "Receive" has an active force here. Jew and Gentile received it as a gift from another, even freely from God; for the Jew was in bondage under law. the Gentile had right to nothing. see Rom. 8.15,23; 9.4; Eph. 1.5.

W. Kelly Translation

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that he might buy those under law, that we might receive our sonship.