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For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
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For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor
free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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And if ye
be
Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
CHAPTER 4
Now I say,
That
the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing 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,
when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
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But when the fulness
of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
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To redeem
them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
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And because ye are
sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
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Wherefore
thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
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Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
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But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the
weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
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Ye observe days, and
months, and times, and years.
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I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
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Brethren, I beseech you, be as I
am;
for I
am
as ye
are:
ye have not injured me at all.
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Ye
know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
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And my
temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of
God,
even
as Christ Jesus.
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Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? 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 therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
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They zealously affect you,
but
not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
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But
it is
good to be zealously
affected always 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 formed in you,
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I desire to be present with you now,
and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
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Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
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For it is written, that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
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But he
who was
of
the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman
was
by promise.
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Which things
are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to
bondage, which is Agar.
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For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem
which now is, 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 not; break forth and cry,
thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
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Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
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But as then he that was born after
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