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15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba![a] Father!”(A)

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  1. 8.15 Aramaic for Father

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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  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

for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.(A)

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For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid,(A) but gives us power,(B) love and self-discipline.

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