15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,(A) but you received the Spirit of adoption,(B) by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”(C)

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15 The Spirit(A) you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again;(B) rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.[a] And by him we cry, “Abba,[b] Father.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:15 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23.
  2. Romans 8:15 Aramaic for father

21 that the creation itself(A) will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

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21 that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay(A) and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. 21 For

15 and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.(A)

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15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear(A) of death.

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