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Galatians - Chapter 4

	Gal 4:1	Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,
	Gal 4:2	but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.
	Gal 4:3	Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
	Gal 4:4	But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born [fn] of a woman, born under the law,
	Gal 4:5	to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
	Gal 4:6	And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"
	Gal 4:7	Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of [fn] God through Christ.
	Gal 4:8	But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.
	Gal 4:9	But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how [is it that] you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
	Gal 4:10	You observe days and months and seasons and years.
	Gal 4:11	I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
	Gal 4:12	Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I [became] like you. You have not injured me at all.
	Gal 4:13	You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.
	Gal 4:14	And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.
	Gal 4:15	What [fn] then was the blessing you [enjoyed]? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.
	Gal 4:16	Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
	Gal 4:17	They zealously court you, [but] for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them.
	Gal 4:18	But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you.
	Gal 4:19	My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
	Gal 4:20	I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.
	Gal 4:21	Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
	Gal 4:22	For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman.
	Gal 4:23	But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise,
	Gal 4:24	which things are symbolic. For these are the [fn] two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar--
	Gal 4:25	for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children--
	Gal 4:26	but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
	Gal 4:27	For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren, [You] who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband." [fn]
	Gal 4:28	Now we, brethren, as Isaac [was], are children of promise.
	Gal 4:29	But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him [who was born] according to the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
	Gal 4:30	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." [fn]
	Gal 4:31	So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

NKJV Footnotes:

(4:4) Or made
(4:7) NU-Text reads through God and omits through Christ.
(4:15) NU-Text reads Where.
(4:24) NU-Text and M-Text omit the.
(4:27) Isaiah 54:1
(4:30) Genesis 21:10

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