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Galatians 4 📜 📕 ↷
Sons and Heirs
1 AND I say, as long as the heir is a little one, he differeth nothing from a servant, although he be lord of all,📜💬📚
2 But is under tutours and governors until the time limited of the father:📜💬📚
3 so we also, when we were little ones, were serving under the elements of the world.📜💬📚
4 But when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son made of a woman, made under the Law:📜💬📚
5 that he might redeem them that were under the Law; that we might receive the adoption of sons.📜💬📚
6 And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his son into your hearts crying: Abba, Father.📜💬📚
7 Therefore now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also by God.📜💬📚
Paul's Concern for the Galatians
8 But then indeed not knowing God, you served them that by nature are not Gods.📜💬📚
9 But now when you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak & poor elements, which you will serve again?📜💬📚
10 You observe days, and months, and times, and years.📜💬📚
11 I fear you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.📜💬📚
12 Be ye as I, because I also am as you: Brethren, I beseech you, you have hurt me nothing.📜💬📚
13 And you know that by infirmity of the flesh I evangelized to you heretofore:📜💬📚
14 and your tentation in my flesh you despised not, neither rejected, but as and Angel of God you received me, as Christ JESUS.📜💬📚
15 Where is then your blessedness? for I give you testimony that if it could be done, you would have plucked out your eyes and have given them to me.📜💬📚
16 Am I then become your enemy, telling you the truth?📜💬📚
17 They emulate you not well: but they would exclude you, that you might emulate them.📜💬📚
18 But do you emulate the good in good always: and not only when I am present with you.📜💬📚
19 My little children, whom I travail withal again, until Christ be formed in you.📜💬📚
20 And I would be with you now and change my voice: because I am confounded in you.📜💬📚
Hagar and Sarah
21 Tell me, you that will be under the law, have you not read the Law?📜💬📚
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one of the bond-woman, and one of the free-woman.📜💬📚
23 But he that of the bond-woman, was born according to the flesh: and he that of the free-woman, by the promise.📜💬📚
24 Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from mount Sina, gendering unto bondage; which is Agar,📜💬📚
25 (for Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that which now is Jerusalem) and serveth with her children.📜💬📚
26 But that Jerusalem which is above, is free; which is our mother.📜💬📚
27 For it is written: Rejoice thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry, that travailest not: because many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.📜💬📚
28 But we brethren, according to Isaac, are the children of promise.📜💬📚
29 But as then he that was born according to the flesh, persecuted him that was after the spirit; so now also.📜💬📚
30 But what saith the Scripture? Cast out the bond-woman and her son. For the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman.📜💬📚
31 Therefore, brethren, we are not the children of the bond-woman, but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ hath made us free.📜💬📚
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