But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all, Gal 4:23Gal 4:29Gen 24:2-32Ki 11:122Ki 10:1-22Ki 12:2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father. So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. Col 2:20Col 2:8Gal 4:9Gal 2:4Gal 4:31Act 15:10Rom 8:15Jhn 8:31 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, Isa 7:14Mrk 1:15Jhn 1:14Rom 1:3Eph 1:101Jn 4:14Jhn 3:16Mat 1:23 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children. Heb 9:15Eph 1:51Pe 1:18-20Eph 1:7Gal 3:13Heb 9:12Rev 5:9Gal 3:26 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, 1 Father!” Rom 8:15-17Rom 5:5Rom 8:92Co 3:17Eph 2:18Php 1:19Eph 4:30Jud 1:20 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Gal 3:29Rom 8:16-17Gal 3:261Co 3:21-23Gal 4:5-6Gal 4:312Co 6:16-18Psa 73:26
However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. 1Co 8:41Th 1:91Th 4:5Eph 2:11-121Co 1:211Co 10:19-201Pe 4:32Ch 13:9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? 1Co 8:3Gal 3:3Rom 8:31Jn 5:201Ch 28:92Pe 2:201Co 13:122Co 4:6 You observe days, months, seasons, and years. Col 2:16-17Rom 14:5Lev 23:1-44Lev 25:13Num 28:1-29Lev 25:1 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you. 1Th 3:52Jn 1:8Gal 2:2Php 2:161Co 15:582Co 11:2-32Co 12:20-21Act 16:6
I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong, 2Co 2:51Ki 22:41Co 9:20-23Gen 34:152Co 6:13Act 21:21Gal 2:14Gal 6:14 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time. 1Co 2:32Co 12:7-102Co 10:102Co 11:302Co 11:62Co 13:4Gal 1:6Act 16:6 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. Mat 10:401Th 2:13Heb 13:22Co 5:202Sa 14:172Sa 19:27Isa 53:2-3Luk 10:16
What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. Rom 5:21Jn 3:16-18Col 4:131Th 2:81Th 5:132Co 8:3Gal 3:14Gal 4:19 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? Amo 5:10Pro 9:8Jhn 8:45Gal 5:7Psa 141:51Ki 22:8Gal 2:5Jhn 7:7 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. 2Co 11:13-15Rom 16:182Pe 2:31Co 4:8Mat 23:151Co 11:21Co 4:182Co 11:3 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you. Php 2:12Php 1:27Rev 3:191Co 15:58Gal 4:13Psa 119:139Tit 2:14Isa 59:17
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you— Eph 4:13Rom 13:14Rom 8:29Eph 4:24Col 4:12Col 3:101Co 4:14-15Php 2:5 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. 1Th 2:17-181Co 4:19-211Th 3:9
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? Gal 3:10Rom 3:19Gal 3:23-24Gal 4:9Mat 22:29-32Jhn 15:25Jhn 5:46-47Rom 10:3-10 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman. Gen 16:15Gen 21:10Gen 16:2-4Gen 21:1-2 However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. Heb 11:11Gen 21:1-2Rom 9:7-8Gal 4:28-29Gen 18:10-14Gen 17:15-19Rom 4:18-21Rom 10:8 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. Gen 21:9-131Co 10:11Gen 16:15-16Gen 16:8Gen 25:12Heb 10:15-18Heb 12:24Hos 11:10 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. Gal 1:17Mat 23:37Psa 68:17Act 1:11Deu 33:2Heb 12:18Jdg 5:5Luk 13:34 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. Heb 12:22Php 3:20Rev 21:2Mic 4:1-2Rev 3:12Isa 66:10Isa 65:18Psa 87:3-6 For it is written, Isa 54:1-5Psa 113:9Rut 4:14-161Sa 2:51Ti 5:5Rut 1:11-132Sa 13:20Isa 49:21
“Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear.
Break out and shout, you who don’t travail.
For the desolate women have more children than her who has a husband.” 2
Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. Gal 4:23Rom 9:8-9Gal 3:29Rom 4:13-18Act 3:25 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. Gen 21:9Rom 8:13Gal 5:111Th 2:14-15Gal 4:23Heb 10:33-34Jhn 15:9Jhn 3:5 However, what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.” 3 Gen 21:10-12Jhn 8:35Rom 8:15-17Gal 3:22Gal 3:8Jas 4:5Rom 11:2Rom 11:7-11 So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman. Gal 5:1Gal 5:13Jhn 8:36Jhn 1:12-131Jn 3:1-2Heb 2:14-15