Romans 8:15

KJV

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

— Romans 8:15, King James Version
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The contrast between 'the spirit of bondage again to fear' and 'the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father' draws a sharp boundary between law-based anxiety and gospel-based intimacy with God. The Aramaic 'Abba' — the intimate family address preserved in both Mark 14:36 and Galatians 4:6 as well as here — likely reflects the actual prayer-language of Jesus himself, suggesting that the Spirit recreates in believers the same filial access that characterised Jesus' own relation to the Father. The legal metaphor of adoption (huiothesia) was well understood in the Greco-Roman world, where adoptees acquired full legal standing as heirs — Paul develops the inheritance implications in verse 17. The verse became foundational for pneumatological accounts of assurance of salvation in Puritan, Reformed, and Wesleyan traditions.

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ASV

For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

YLT

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

BBE

For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

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