Thematic Bible

Galatians 4:1

And I say, for as long time as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a servant, being lord of all;

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But is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.

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So also we, when we were children, were subjugated under the world's elements:

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And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

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That he might redeem them under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

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And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

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So that thou art no more a servant, but a son: and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

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But then truly, not having known God, ye were in a servile condition to them not being gods by nature.

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And now, having known God, and rather known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and poor elements, to which again ye wish anew to be in a servile condition

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Ye observe narrowly days, and months, and times, and years.

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I am afraid of you, lest I have been wearied for you in vain.

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Be ye as I, for I also as you, brethren, I pray you: ye injured me nothing.
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Galatians 4:13

And ye know that through weakness of the flesh I announced the good news to you before.

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And my temptation in my flesh, ye counted not as nothing, nor spurned; but as an angel of God ye received me, as Christ Jesus.

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What then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that, if possible, having plucked out your eyes, ye would have given to me.

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Have I then been your enemy, speaking truth to you

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They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them.

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And good to be zealous always in good, and not only in my being present with you.

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My children, for whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,

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And I would be present with you now, and change my voice; for I am perplexed about you.
No Themes for this verse.

Galatians 4:21

Tell me, those wishing to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

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For it has been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondmaid, and one by the free.

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But he truly of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; and he of the free through the promise.

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Which things are spoken figuratively: for these are the two covenants; one truly from mount Sinai, begetting to bondage, which is Agar.

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For Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and now stands in the same rank With Jerusalem, and is in a servile condition with her children.

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But Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.

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For it has been written, Be cheered, O barren, bearing not; break out and cry, she travailing not: for many more the children of the desolate than she having a husband.

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And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise.

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But as then he born according to the flesh drove out him according to the Spirit, so also now.

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But what says the writing? Cast out the bondmaid and her son; for the son of the bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the free.

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Therefore, brethren, we are not children of the bondmaid, but of the free.