Thematic Bible
Galatians 4:1 (show verse)
I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of all the estate;
Galatians 4:2 (show verse)
but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father.
Galatians 4:3 (show verse)
So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the elemental things of the world.
Galatians 4:4 (show verse)
But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
Galatians 4:5 (show verse)
to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Galatians 4:6 (show verse)
Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
Galatians 4:7 (show verse)
So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.
Galatians 4:8 (show verse)
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.
Galatians 4:9 (show verse)
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things? Do you desire to be enslaved all over again?
Galatians 4:10 (show verse)
You observe days and months and seasons and years!
Galatians 4:11 (show verse)
I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
Galatians 4:12 (show verse)
Brethren, I beg you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong;
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Galatians 4:13 (show verse)
you know it was because of an illness in the flesh that I preached the gospel to you at first;
Galatians 4:14 (show verse)
and though my fleshly condition was a trial to you, you did not despise or scorn me, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus himself.
Galatians 4:15 (show verse)
What has become of the satisfaction you felt? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
Galatians 4:16 (show verse)
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Galatians 4:17 (show verse)
They seek you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you out, so that you may seek them.
Galatians 4:18 (show verse)
But it is always good to seek a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you.
Galatians 4:19 (show verse)
My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you
Galatians 4:20 (show verse)
I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
No Themes for this verse.
Galatians 4:21 (show verse)
Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?
Galatians 4:22 (show verse)
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave and one by the free woman.
Galatians 4:23 (show verse)
But the son by the slave was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.
Galatians 4:24 (show verse)
This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar.
Galatians 4:25 (show verse)
Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
Galatians 4:26 (show verse)
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
Galatians 4:27 (show verse)
For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not in labor; for the children of the desolate are more numerous than the children of her who has a husband."
Galatians 4:28 (show verse)
Now you, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.
Galatians 4:29 (show verse)
But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now.
Galatians 4:30 (show verse)
But what does the scripture say? "Cast out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave shall not inherit with the son of the free woman."
Galatians 4:31 (show verse)
So then, brethren, we are not children of the slave, but of the free woman.