Galatians 4:1
But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all... [ Continue Reading ]
But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all... [ Continue Reading ]
but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.... [ Continue Reading ]
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world... [ Continue Reading ]
but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law... [ Continue Reading ]
that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. [In this paragraph Paul resumes the metaphor begun at Galatians 3:24; but from a slightly different point of view. There, law, or the tutor, was prominent; here, the son, or pupil, is the chief object of c... [ Continue Reading ]
And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.... [ Continue Reading ]
So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. [And being made sons by the Son through the operation of faith (John 1:12), the Spirit of Christ is bestowed upon us to bring us to blissful realization of our sonship, so that we may speak to God, calling h... [ Continue Reading ]
Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods... [ Continue Reading ]
but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.... [ Continue Reading ]
I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain. [This paragraph is addressed especially to the Gentile Christians. He reminds them that at the time of their wardship their condition differed from that of the Jews; for, having no true copy of the will or law, they were i... [ Continue Reading ]
I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, for I also am become as ye are. Ye did me no wrong... [ Continue Reading ]
but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time... [ Continue Reading ]
and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.... [ Continue Reading ]
Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.... [ Continue Reading ]
So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth? [I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, and be not Jews; for I forsook Judaism and became simply a Christian, which made me, in the eyes of my brethren, a Gentile like you. Though I have spoken severely to you, it is for no personal reasons... [ Continue Reading ]
They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.... [ Continue Reading ]
But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you. [The Jews showed great zeal in proselyting (Galatians 1:14; Matthew 23:15; Romans 2:10), and the apostle states that in this case their zeal exhibited itself in courting the Galatians in an... [ Continue Reading ]
My little children [1 Timothy 1:18; 2 Timothy 2:1; 1 John 2:1], _of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you_... [ Continue Reading ]
but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you. [My little children, for whom I endured spiritual travail to give you birth at the time of your conversion, and for whom I a second time endure travail, that the Christ life may be formed in you, so tha... [ Continue Reading ]
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?... [ Continue Reading ]
For it is written [Genesis 16:15; Genesis 21:2], _that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman._... [ Continue Reading ]
Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise. [Genesis 18:10; Genesis 18:14; Genesis 21:1-2; Hebrews 11:11; Romans 4:13; Romans 9:7-9]... [ Continue Reading ]
Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.... [ Continue Reading ]
Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.... [ Continue Reading ]
But the Jerusalem that is above [Philippians 3:20; Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 3:12; Revelation 21:2] _is free, which is our mother._... [ Continue Reading ]
For it is written [Isaiah 54:1; Isaiah 51:2], _Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband._... [ Continue Reading ]
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.... [ Continue Reading ]
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also is it now.... [ Continue Reading ]
Howbeit what saith the scripture? [Genesis 21:10] _Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman._... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of the handmaid, but of the free woman. [Tell me, ye who are so eager to return to the law, do ye not note what the law itself says? Of itself it warns you not to do this thing, in that it tells you the story of Abraham's two sons, one of whom, Ishmael, was t... [ Continue Reading ]