Galatians 4:17
King James Version (1769) with Strongs Numbers and Morphology
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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Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: |
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To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. |
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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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Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. |
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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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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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Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? |
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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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I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. |
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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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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 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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But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. |
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So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. |