Galatians:4

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* Now I say [That ] the heir , as long as he is a child differs [in ] nothing from a servant , though he be lord of all , * but is under [the hand ] of tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father . * Even so we , when we were children , were in bondage under the elements of the world , * but when the fullness of the time was come , God sent forth his Son , born of a woman , born under the law , * to redeem those that were under the law , that we might receive the adoption of sons . * And because ye are sons , God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts , crying , Abba , Father ; * therefore , thou art no longer a servant , but a son ; and if a son , then an heir of God through Christ . * However then , when ye did not know God ye did service unto those who by nature are not gods . * But now , having known God , or rather being known of God , how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly elements , in which ye desire again to be in bondage ? * Ye observe days and months and times and years . * I am afraid for you , lest I have bestowed labour upon you in vain . * Brethren , I beseech you , be as I [am ]; for I [am ] as ye [are ]; ye have not injured me at all . * Ye know how through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first . * And my affliction which was in my flesh ye did not despise , nor reject but [ye ] received me as an angel of God , [even ] as Christ Jesus . * Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of ? for I bear you record that if [it had been ] possible , ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me . * Am I , therefore , become your enemy because I tell you the truth ? * They are zealous after you , [but ] not [for ] good ; they would exclude you [from us ], that ye might be zealous after them . * It is good to be always zealous to [do ] good , and not only when I am present with you . * My little children , of whom I travail in birth again until Christ is formed in you , * I desire to be present with you now and to change my voice , for I stand in doubt of you . * Tell me , ye that desire to be under the law , have ye not heard the law ? * For it is written that Abraham had two sons , the one by a bondmaid , the other by a freewoman . * But he [who was ] of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh , but he of the freewoman [was born ] through the promise . * Which things are an allegory ; for these [women ] are the two covenants : the one from the mount Sinai , which begat unto bondage , which is Hagar . * For this Hagar or Sinai is a mount in Arabia , which corresponds to the one that is now Jerusalem , which [together ] with her children is in bondage . * But the Jerusalem of above is free , which is the mother of us all . * For it is written , Rejoice , [thou ] barren that bearest not ; break forth [into praise ] and cry , thou that travailest not : for the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband . * So that we , brethren , as Isaac was , are the children of promise . * But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him [that was born ] according to the Spirit , even so [it is ] now . * Nevertheless what does the scripture say ? Cast out the bondwoman and her son , for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman . * So then , brethren , we are not children of the bondwoman , but of the free .:

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