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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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Gal. 4:21• ²¹Tell me, ye who wish to be under law, do ye not hear the law? (Gal. 4:21)

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Gal. 3:13• ¹³Christ bought us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, “Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree,”) (Gal. 3:13)

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

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

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Acts 20:28• ²⁸Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit set you overseers to tend the assembly of God, which he purchased with his own blood. (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• ²even as the Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for an odour of sweet smell. (Eph. 5:2)

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Col. 1:13‑20• ¹³who 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 [the] image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;
¹⁶for by him was created the universe, the things in the heavens and those on the earth, the seen and the unseen, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities. The universe has been created through him and for him.
¹⁷He is before all things, and the universe in him subsisteth.
¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might be in all things pre-eminent:
¹⁹for in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell;
²⁰and by him to reconcile the universe unto him, having made peace by the blood of his cross(by him, whether the things on the earth or those 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 people for his own possession, zealous of good works. (Titus 2:14)

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

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Heb. 9:12,15• ¹²neither by blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, entered once for all into the holies, having found an everlasting 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, those that are called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance. (Heb. 9:12,15)

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1 Peter 1:18‑20• ¹⁸knowing that not by corruptibles, silver or gold, ye were redeemed, from your vain course ancestrally handed down,
¹⁹but by precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,
²⁰foreknown indeed before [the] world's foundation, but manifested at [the] last of the times for your sake, (1 Peter 1:18‑20)

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1 Peter 3:18• ¹⁸Because even Christ once suffered for sins, just for unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed 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 the seals thereof: for thou wast slain and hast bought [us] 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 [as] a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song but the hundred forty {i}and{/i} four thousand that were bought from the earth. (Rev. 14:3)

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Gal. 4:7• ⁷So that thou art no longer a bondservant but a son; and if a son, an heir also of God through Christ. (Gal. 4:7)

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

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

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Rom. 8:19,23• ¹⁹For the earnest expectation of the creation awaiteth the revelation of the sons of God.
²³and not only [so], but ourselves too, having the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves within ourselves are groaning, awaiting [the] adoption, the redemption of our body. (Rom. 8:19,23)

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Rom. 9:4• ⁴which 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 predestinated us for adoption through Jesus Christ unto 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.