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Romans 8:15

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8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, 1  but you received the Spirit of adoption, 2  by whom 3  we cry, “Abba, Father.”

1 tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”

2 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).”

3 tn Or “in that.”



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