Thematic Bible
Galatians 4:1 (show verse)
And I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth not from a servant; though he be lord of all,
Galatians 4:2 (show verse)
but is under tutors and governors, until the time appointed of the father.
Galatians 4:3 (show verse)
Even so we, as long as we were children, were in bondage under the ordinances of the world:
Galatians 4:4 (show verse)
But when the time was full come, God sent his son - born of a woman, and made bond unto the law -
Galatians 4:5 (show verse)
to redeem them which were under the law: that we through election might receive the inheritance that belongeth unto the natural sons.
Galatians 4:6 (show verse)
Because ye are sons, God hath sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, which crieth "Abba, father."
Galatians 4:7 (show verse)
Wherefore now art thou not a servant, but a son. If thou be the son, thou art also the heir of God through Christ.
Galatians 4:8 (show verse)
Notwithstanding, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them, which by nature were no gods:
Galatians 4:9 (show verse)
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?
Galatians 4:10 (show verse)
Ye observe the days, and months, and times, and years.
Galatians 4:11 (show verse)
I am in fear of you, lest I have bestowed on you labour in vain.
Galatians 4:12 (show verse)
Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am: for I am as ye are. Ye have not hurt me at all.
No Themes for this verse.
Galatians 4:13 (show verse)
Ye know well how that through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
Galatians 4:14 (show verse)
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.
Galatians 4:15 (show verse)
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.
Galatians 4:16 (show verse)
Am I so greatly, therefore, become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Galatians 4:17 (show verse)
They are jealous over you amiss. Yea they intend to exclude you, that ye should be fervent to them ward.
Galatians 4:18 (show verse)
It is good always to be fervent, so it be in a good thing; and not only when I am present with you.
Galatians 4:19 (show verse)
My little children - of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be fashioned in you -
Galatians 4:20 (show verse)
I would I were with you now, and could change my voice, for I stand in a doubt of you.
No Themes for this verse.
Galatians 4:21 (show verse)
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law: have ye not heard of the law?
Galatians 4:22 (show verse)
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman.
Galatians 4:23 (show verse)
Yea, and he which was of the bondwoman, was born after the flesh: but he which was of the freewoman, was born by promise.
Galatians 4:24 (show verse)
Which things betoken mystery. For these women are two testaments, the one from the mount Sinai, which gendreth unto bondage, which is Hagar.
Galatians 4:25 (show verse)
- For mount Sinai is called Hagar in Arabia, and bordereth upon the city which is now Jerusalem - and is in bondage with her children.
Galatians 4:26 (show verse)
But Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is the mother of us all.
Galatians 4:27 (show verse)
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."
Galatians 4:28 (show verse)
Brethren, we are, after the manner of Isaac, children of promise:
Galatians 4:29 (show verse)
But as then he that was born carnally, persecuted him that was born spiritually; Even so is it now.
Galatians 4:30 (show verse)
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."
Galatians 4:31 (show verse)
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman: but of the freewoman.