Thematic Bible

Galatians 4:1

And I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth not from a servant; though he be lord of all,

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but is under tutors and governors, until the time appointed of the father.

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Even so we, as long as we were children, were in bondage under the ordinances of the world:

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But when the time was full come, God sent his son - born of a woman, and made bond unto the law -

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to redeem them which were under the law: that we through election might receive the inheritance that belongeth unto the natural sons.

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Because ye are sons, God hath sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, which crieth "Abba, father."

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Wherefore now art thou not a servant, but a son. If thou be the son, thou art also the heir of God through Christ.

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Notwithstanding, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them, which by nature were no gods:

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But now, seeing ye know God - yea rather are known of God - how is it that ye turn again unto the weak and beggarly ceremonies, whereunto again ye desire afresh to be in bondage?

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

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I am in fear of you, lest I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

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Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am: for I am as ye are. Ye have not hurt me at all.
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Galatians 4:13

Ye know well how that through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

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And my temptation which I suffered by reason of my flesh, ye despised not, neither abhorred, but received me as an angel of God: yea as Christ Jesus.

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How happy were ye then? 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.

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Am I so greatly, therefore, become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

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They are jealous over you amiss. Yea they intend to exclude you, that ye should be fervent to them ward.

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It is good always to be fervent, so it be in a good thing; and not only when I am present with you.

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My little children - of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be fashioned in you -

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I would I were with you now, and could change my voice, for I stand in a doubt of you.
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Galatians 4:21

Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law: have ye not heard of the law?

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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman.

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Yea, and he which was of the bondwoman, was born after the flesh: but he which was of the freewoman, was born by promise.

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Which things betoken mystery. For these women are two testaments, the one from the mount Sinai, which gendreth unto bondage, which is Hagar.

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- For mount Sinai is called Hagar in Arabia, and bordereth upon the city which is now Jerusalem - and is in bondage with her children.

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

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For it is written, "Rejoice thou barren, that bearest no children: break forth and cry, thou that travailest not. For the desolate hath many more children, than she which hath a husband."

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Brethren, we are, after the manner of Isaac, children of promise:

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But as then he that was born carnally, persecuted him that was born spiritually; Even so is it now.

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Nevertheless, what saith the scripture? "Put away the bondwoman and her son. For the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman."

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So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman: but of the freewoman.