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 Gal 4:1 |
What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. |
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Gal 4:2 |
The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. |
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Gal 4:3 |
So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces [fn] of the world. |
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Gal 4:4 |
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, |
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Gal 4:5 |
to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. [fn] |
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Gal 4:6 |
Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, [fn] Father." |
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Gal 4:7 |
So you are no longer a slave, but God's child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. |
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Gal 4:8 |
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. |
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Gal 4:9 |
But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces [fn]? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? |
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Gal 4:10 |
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! |
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Gal 4:11 |
I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you. |
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Gal 4:12 |
I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. You did me no wrong. |
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Gal 4:13 |
As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you, |
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Gal 4:14 |
and even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself. |
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Gal 4:15 |
Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. |
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Gal 4:16 |
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? |
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Gal 4:17 |
Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may have zeal for them. |
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Gal 4:18 |
It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you. |
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Gal 4:19 |
My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, |
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Gal 4:20 |
how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you! |
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Gal 4:21 |
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? |
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Gal 4:22 |
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. |
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Gal 4:23 |
His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise. |
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Gal 4:24 |
These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. |
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Gal 4:25 |
Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. |
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Gal 4:26 |
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. |
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Gal 4:27 |
For it is written: "Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband." [fn] |
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Gal 4:28 |
Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. |
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Gal 4:29 |
At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. |
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Gal 4:30 |
But what does Scripture say? "Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman's son." [fn] |
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Gal 4:31 |
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman. |
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