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4 : 1 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave,though he is the owner of everything,
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4 : 2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
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4 : 3 In the same way we also, when we were children,were enslaved to the elementary principlesof the world.
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4 : 4 Butwhen the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son,bornof woman, bornunder the law,
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4 : 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receiveadoption as sons.
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4 : 6 And because you are sons, God has sentthe Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying,Abba! Father!
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4 : 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, thenan heir through God.
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4 : 8 Formerly, when youdid not know God, youwere enslaved to those that by natureare not gods.
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4 : 9 But now that you have come to know God, or ratherto be known by God,how can you turn back again tothe weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
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4 : 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years!
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4 : 11 I am afraidI may have labored over you in vain.
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4 : 12 Brothers,I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are.You did me no wrong.
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4 : 13 You know it wasbecause of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to youat first,
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4 : 14 and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received meas an angel of God,as Christ Jesus.
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4 : 15 What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.
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4 : 16 Have I then become your enemy bytelling you the truth?
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4 : 17 They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.
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4 : 18 It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, andnot only when I am present with you,
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4 : 19 my little children,for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christis formed in you!
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4 : 20 I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
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4 : 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
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4 : 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons,one by a slave woman andone by a free woman.
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4 : 23 Butthe son of the slave was born according to the flesh, whilethe son of the free woman was born through promise.
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4 : 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are twocovenants.One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
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4 : 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
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4 : 26 Butthe Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
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4 : 27 For it is written,Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!For the children of the desolate one will be morethan those of the one who has a husband.
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4 : 28 Now you,brothers,like Isaac,are children of promise.
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4 : 29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the fleshpersecuted him who was born according to the Spirit,so also it is now.
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4 : 30 But what does the Scripture say?Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.
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4 : 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave butof the free woman.
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