Galatians 4:31
Galatians 4:31 Meaning and Explanation
“So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Galatians 4:31 Mean?
Paul gathers up the allegory in a ringing conclusion. We are not children of the slave; we are children of the free woman. Our birth is to liberty, our family the household of promise. Bondage is not our inheritance.
This is the note of freedom on which the chapter ends and the next begins. The Galatians belong to the free woman, born to walk as free sons and daughters of God. Paul has shown them their true lineage, and he will now urge them to live worthy of it.
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What does Galatians 4:31 mean?
So then, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free.