Romans 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.”

Ex 20:19; Nu 17:12; Isa 56:5; Jer 3:19; Mr 14:36; Lu 8:28,37; Lu 11:2; Lu 22:42; Joh 16:8; Joh 20:17; Ac 2:37; Ac 16:29; Ro 8:16; 1Co 2:12; Ga 4:5-7; Eph 1:5,11-14; 2Ti 1:7; Heb 2:15; Heb 12:18-24; Jas 2:19; 1Jo 4:18

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.”