Galatians 4:6

WEB

⁶And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba,^[+] Father!”

KJV

⁶And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

BSB

⁶And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

FBV

⁶To show you are his children, God sent the Spirit of his Son to convince us, causing us to call out, “Abba,” meaning “Father.”

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Extra References

Romans 8:15-17

¹⁵For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba!^[+] Father!”

¹⁶The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; ¹⁷and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Romans 5:5

⁵and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Romans 8:9

⁹But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Ephesians 2:18

¹⁸For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

2 Corinthians 3:17

¹⁷Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Philippians 1:19

¹⁹For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 4:30

³⁰Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Jude 1:20

²⁰But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

John 15:26

²⁶“When the Counselor^[+] has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

John 16:7

⁷Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.