All who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons and daughters. 15 You didn’t receive a spirit of slavery to lead you back again into fear, but you received a Spirit that shows you are adopted as his children. With this Spirit, we cry, “ Abba, Father. ” 16 The same Spirit agrees with our spirit, that we are God’s children. 17 But if we are children, we are also heirs. We are God’s heirs and fellow heirs with Christ, if we really suffer with him so that we can also be glorified with him.
William P. Brown is Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. 701 S. Columbia Drive P.O. Box 520 Decatur, GA 30031 404-687-4584 404 377-9696 fax