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Galatians 4 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Sonship in Christ

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Now I say, as long as the heir is a [fn]child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is [fn]owner of everything,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:2 - but he is under guardians and stewards until the date set by the father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:3 - So also we, while we were children, were enslaved under the [fn]elemental things of the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:4 - But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under [fn]the Law,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:5 - so that He might redeem those who were under [fn]the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:6 - And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:7 - Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir [fn]through God.

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However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:9 - But now, having known God, or rather having been known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless [fn]elemental things, to which you want to be enslaved all over again?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:10 - You observe days and months and seasons and years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:11 - I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored [fn]over you for nothing.

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I beg of you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:13 - But you know that it was because of a [fn]bodily illness that I proclaimed the gospel to you the [fn]first time;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:14 - and that which was a [fn]trial to you in my [fn]bodily condition you did not despise or [fn]loathe, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:15 - Where then is [fn]that sense of blessing you had? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:16 - So have I become your enemy by [fn]telling you the truth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:17 - They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will zealously seek them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:18 - But it is good always to be zealously sought in a commendable [fn]manner, and not only when I am present with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:19 - My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:20 - but I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.

An Allegory of Two Covenants

(Gen 21:8–21; Isa 54:1 )

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Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the Law?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:22 - For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman and one by the free woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:23 - But the son by the servant-woman had been born according to the flesh, while the son by the free woman through the promise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:24 - [fn]This is [fn]spoken with allegory, for these women are two covenants: one from Mount Sinai bearing children into slavery; [fn]she is Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:25 - Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:26 - But the Jerusalem above is free; [fn]she is our mother.

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“REJOICE, BARREN WOMAN WHO DOES NOT GIVE BIRTH;

BREAK FORTH AND SHOUT, YOU WHO ARE NOT IN LABOR;

FOR MORE NUMEROUS ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE ONE

THAN OF THE ONE WHO HAS A HUSBAND.”

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And you brothers, in accordance with Isaac, are children of promise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:29 - But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh was persecuting him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.

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“CAST OUT THE SERVANT-WOMAN AND HER SON,

FOR THE SON OF THE SERVANT-WOMAN SHALL NOT BE AN HEIR WITH THE SON OF THE FREE WOMAN.”

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So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant-woman, [fn]but of the free woman.

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