Galatians:4

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* Now I say , That the heir , as long as he is a child , differeth nothing from a servant , though he be lord of all ; * But is under 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 fulness of the time was come , God sent forth his Son , made of a woman , made under the law , * To redeem them that were under the law , that we might receive the adoption of sons . * And because ye are sons , God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts , crying , Abba , Father . * Wherefore thou art no more a servant , but a son ; and if a son , then an heir of God through Christ . * Howbeit then , when ye knew not God , ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods . * But now , after that ye have known God , or rather are known of God , how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements , whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ? * Ye observe days , and months , and times , and years . * I am afraid of you , lest I have bestowed upon you labour 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 infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first . * And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not , nor rejected ; but received me as an angel of God , even as Christ Jesus . * Where is then the blessedness ye spake 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 zealously affect you , but not well ; yea , they would exclude you , that ye might affect them . * But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing , and not only when I am present with you . * My little children , of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be 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 , do ye not hear 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 after the flesh ; but he of the freewoman was by promise . * Which things are an allegory : for these are the two covenants ; the one from the mount Sinai , which gendereth to bondage , which is Agar . * For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia , and answereth to Jerusalem which now is , and is in bondage with her children . * But Jerusalem which is above is free , which is the mother of us all . * For it is written , Rejoice , thou barren that bearest not ; break forth and cry , thou that travailest not : for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband . * Now we , brethren , as Isaac was , are the children of promise . * But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit , even so it is now . * Nevertheless what saith the scripture ? 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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