Romans 8:15 meaning and explanation
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Romans 8:15, Berean Standard Bible
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In Romans 8 Paul is writing to believers in Rome about life in the Spirit, contrasting it with life under the law and the flesh. Here he says that the Spirit they received is not one that leads back into slavery and fear, but the Spirit of adoption, the Greek word huiothesia, meaning the legal standing of a son in a family.
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