Galatians:4

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asv @Galatians:4:1 @But I say that so long as the heir is a child , he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all ; asv @Galatians:4:2 @but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father . asv @Galatians:4:3 @So we also , when we were children , were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world : asv @Galatians:4:4 @but when the fulness of the time came , God sent forth his Son , born of a woman , born under the law , asv @Galatians:4:5 @that he might redeem them that were under the law , that we might receive the adoption of sons . asv @Galatians:4:6 @And because ye are sons , God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts , crying , Abba , Father . asv @Galatians:4:7 @So that thou art no longer a bondservant , but a son ; and if a son , then an heir through God . asv @Galatians:4:8 @Howbeit at that time , not knowing God , ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods : asv @Galatians:4:9 @but now that ye have come to know God , or rather to be known by God , how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments , whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again ? asv @Galatians:4:10 @Ye observe days , and months , and seasons , and years . asv @Galatians:4:11 @I am afraid of you , lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain . asv @Galatians:4:12 @I beseech you , brethren , become as I am , for I also am become as ye are . Ye did me no wrong : asv @Galatians:4:13 @but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time : asv @Galatians:4:14 @and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not , nor rejected ; but ye received me as an angel of God , even as Christ Jesus . asv @Galatians:4:15 @Where then is that gratulation of yourselves ? for I bear you witness , that , if possible , ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me . asv @Galatians:4:16 @So then am I become your enemy , by telling you the truth ? asv @Galatians:4:17 @They zealously seek you in no good way ; nay , they desire to shut you out , that ye may seek them . asv @Galatians:4:18 @But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times , and not only when I am present with you . asv @Galatians:4:19 @My little children , of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you -- asv @Galatians:4:20 @but I could wish to be present with you now , and to change my tone ; for I am perplexed about you . asv @Galatians:4:21 @Tell me , ye that desire to be under the law , do ye not hear the law ? asv @Galatians:4:22 @For it is written , that Abraham had two sons , one by the handmaid , and one by the freewoman . asv @Galatians:4:23 @Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh ; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise . asv @Galatians:4:24 @Which things contain an allegory : for these women are two covenants ; one from mount Sinai , bearing children unto bondage , which is Hagar . asv @Galatians:4:25 @Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is : for she is in bondage with her children . asv @Galatians:4:26 @But the Jerusalem that is above is free , which is our mother . asv @Galatians:4:27 @For it is written , Rejoice , thou barren that bearest not ; Break forth and cry , thou that travailest not : For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband . asv @Galatians:4:28 @Now we , brethren , as Isaac was , are children of promise . asv @Galatians:4:29 @But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit , so also it is now . asv @Galatians:4:30 @Howbeit what saith the scripture ? Cast out the handmaid and her son : for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman . asv @Galatians:4:31 @Wherefore , brethren , we are not children of a handmaid , but of the freewoman .

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