Galatians 4
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1Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a slave, though he be lord of all;
2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4But when the fullness of the time was come, God-The Father sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the sonship of sons.
6And because you2f are sons, God-The Father has sent forth the Spirit [Ruach] of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7For what reason youi are no more a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God-The Father through Moshiach [Messiah].
8However then, when you2f knew not God-The Father, you2f did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9But now, after that you2f have known God-The Father, or rather are known of God-The Father, how turn you2f again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto you2f desire again to be in bondage?
10You2f observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12Brethren, I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as you2f [are]: you2f have not injured me at all.
13You2f know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the Gospel (joyful message) unto you at the first.
14And my temptation which was in my flesh you2f despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God-The Father, [even] as Moshiach [Messiah] Yeshua [God is Salvation].
15Where is then the blessedness you2f spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, you2f would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yes, they would exclude you, that you2f might affect them.
18But [it is] good to be zealously affected always in [a] good [thing], and not only when I am present with you.
19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Moshiach [Messiah] be formed in you,
20I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21Tell me, you2f that desire to be under the law, do you2f not hear the law?
22For it is written, that Avraham [Exalted Father] had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise.
24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia [steppe-dwellers], and answer to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26But Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27For it is written, Rejoice, [youi] barren that bear not; break forth and cry, youi that travaile not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has an husband.
28Now we, brethren, as Yitz’khak [Laughter] was, are the children of promise.
29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit [Ruach], even so [it is] now.
30Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
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