Those apart from Christ remain under the law, condemned in their sin. Those in Christ have been adopted into the family of God, (and being children of God,) are now liberated from the law. The law was not given to save, but to reveal the holiness of God and our desperate need for salvation.
The Children of God
Galatians 4: 1-11
Our text continues the line of thought from the previous passage as Paul further argues that salvation is a gift of grace received by faith in Christ, not obtained through personal merit or works of the flesh. He again uses the illustration of children, here
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