These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Galatians 4
Brit Hadashah 31 verses
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Now I say that so long as an heir is a child, he in no respect differs from a slave, although he is the owner of everything,
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- 2 but he is under the control of guardians and trustees until the time his father has appointed.
- 3 So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world’s rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.
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But, when the time was fully come, sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law,
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Mark 1:15 John 1:14 Ephesians 1:10 Luke 2:7 Luke 1:35 John 3:16 Zechariah 2:8-11 Isaiah 9:6-7 John 10:36 Isaiah 7:14 Micah 5:2-3 Jeremiah 31:22 Isaiah 48:16 1 John 4:9-10 Zechariah 6:12 Daniel 9:24-26 Romans 1:3 Genesis 3:15 Genesis 49:10 1 John 4:14 Malachi 3:1 Luke 2:21-27 Hebrews 10:5-7 Acts 1:7 Hebrews 2:14 Luke 1:31 Hebrews 9:10 Luke 2:10-11 Matthew 1:23 Romans 15:8 Romans 8:3 Matthew 5:17 John 8:42 1 John 4:2 Romans 9:5 1 Timothy 3:16 Philippians 2:6-8 Colossians 2:14 John 6:38 Matthew 3:15 -
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in order to purchase the freedom of all who were subject to Law, so that we might receive recognition as sons.
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Ephesians 1:5 Romans 8:23 Galatians 3:26 John 1:12 Galatians 4:21 Colossians 1:13-20 Titus 2:14 1 Peter 1:18-20 Galatians 4:7 Matthew 20:28 Luke 1:68 Acts 20:28 Hebrews 9:12 Ephesians 5:2 Hebrews 9:15 Romans 8:19 Romans 9:4 Galatians 3:13 Ephesians 1:7 Hebrews 1:3 Revelation 5:9 Revelation 14:3 1 Peter 3:18 -
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And because you are sons, has sent out the of His Son to enter your hearts and cry “Abba! our Father!”
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Romans 8:15-17 Romans 5:5 Romans 8:9 Ephesians 4:30 Philippians 1:19 Ephesians 6:18 John 14:16 Romans 8:26-27 Jeremiah 3:4 Ephesians 2:18 Luke 11:2 Acts 16:7 Luke 11:13 Ephesians 1:13 John 7:39 Jeremiah 3:19 Jude 1:20 2 Corinthians 3:17 Hebrews 4:14-16 John 16:7 1 Corinthians 15:45 2 Corinthians 1:22 1 Peter 1:11 Revelation 19:10 Isaiah 44:3-5 Matthew 6:6-9 John 15:26 John 3:34 - 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir also through Elohim’s own act.
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But at one time, you Gentiles, having no knowledge of , were slaves to Elohims which in reality do not exist.
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1 Thessalonians 4:5 1 Corinthians 1:21 2 Thessalonians 1:8 1 Corinthians 8:4 Ephesians 2:11-12 Isaiah 37:19 2 Chronicles 13:9 1 Thessalonians 1:9 John 1:10 Joshua 24:2 Isaiah 44:9-20 1 Peter 4:3 1 Corinthians 10:19-20 Ephesians 4:18 Acts 17:23 1 Corinthians 12:2 Romans 1:28 Psalm 135:15-18 Acts 17:29-30 Psalm 115:4-8 Joshua 24:15 Jeremiah 10:25 Romans 1:23 Jeremiah 10:3-16 Jeremiah 2:11 Acts 14:12 Exodus 5:2 1 John 3:1 -
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Now, however, having come to —or rather to be known by Him—how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?
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1 Corinthians 8:3 Galatians 3:3 Romans 8:3 Hebrews 7:18 Colossians 2:20-23 Psalm 1:6 Exodus 33:17 John 17:3 Ephesians 1:17 Matthew 11:27 1 Corinthians 13:12 1 John 2:3-4 2 Corinthians 4:6 Jeremiah 31:34 1 Kings 8:43 1 John 5:20 Proverbs 2:5 John 10:27 John 10:14 1 Chronicles 28:9 Romans 8:29 2 Peter 2:20 2 Timothy 2:19 1 Corinthians 15:34 Habakkuk 2:14 Psalm 9:10 Hebrews 10:38-39 -
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You scrupulously observe days and months, special seasons, and years.
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- 11 I am alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose.
- 12 Brethren, become as I am, I beseech you; for I have also become like you. In no respect did you behave badly to me.
- 13 And you that in those early days it was on account of bodily infirmity that I proclaimed the Good News to you,
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and yet the bodily infirmity which was such a trial to you, you did not regard with contempt or loathing, but you received me as if I had been an of or Himself!
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Matthew 10:40 1 Thessalonians 2:13 2 Corinthians 5:20 Malachi 2:7 Ecclesiastes 9:16 1 Corinthians 4:10 2 Samuel 19:27 Galatians 4:13 John 13:20 Hebrews 13:2 Psalm 119:141 Zechariah 12:8 1 Thessalonians 4:8 2 Samuel 14:17 Matthew 18:5 1 Corinthians 1:28 Isaiah 53:2-3 Matthew 25:40 Luke 10:16 Job 12:5 - 15 I ask you, then, what has become of your self-congratulations? For I bear you witness that had it been possible you would have torn out your own eyes and have given them to me.
- 16 Can it be that I have become your enemy through speaking the to you?
- 17 These men pay court to you, but not with honourable motives. They want to exclude you, so that you may pay court to them.
- 18 It is always an honourable thing to be courted in an honourable cause; always, and not only when I am with you, my children—
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you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until is fully formed within you.
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Ephesians 4:13 Romans 8:29 Numbers 11:11-12 James 1:18 Romans 13:14 Ephesians 4:24 Colossians 3:10 Colossians 1:27 Philippians 2:17 Philemon 1:10 1 Corinthians 4:14-15 Philemon 1:19 Colossians 2:1 Revelation 12:1-2 Philippians 2:5 Philippians 1:8 Luke 22:44 1 John 5:21 Titus 1:4 1 John 2:12 Hebrews 5:7 1 John 2:1 Colossians 4:12 1 Timothy 1:2 Isaiah 53:11 -
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Would that I were with you and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
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- 21 Tell me—you who want to continue to be subject to Law—will you not listen to the Law?
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For it is written that had two sons, one by the slave-girl and one by the free woman.
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- 23 But we see that the child of the slave-girl was born in the common course of nature; but the child of the free woman in fulfilment of the promise.
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All this is allegorical; for the women represent two Covenants. One has its origin on Mount , and bears children destined for slavery.
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1 Corinthians 10:11 Genesis 21:9-13 Hosea 11:10 Hebrews 13:20 Genesis 25:12 Deuteronomy 33:2 Hebrews 10:15-18 Hebrews 11:19 Galatians 5:1 Ezekiel 20:49 Genesis 16:8 Matthew 13:35 Hebrews 12:24 Genesis 16:3-4 Luke 22:19-20 Hebrews 8:6-13 Galatians 4:25 Romans 8:15 Genesis 16:15-16 Galatians 3:15-21 Hebrews 7:22 1 Corinthians 10:4 Hebrews 9:15-24 -
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This is ; for the stands for Mount in Arabia, and corresponds to the present , which is in bondage together with her children.
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But the which is above is free, and *she* is *our* mother.
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Hebrews 12:22 Revelation 3:12 Philippians 3:20 Revelation 21:2 Micah 4:1-2 Song of Solomon 8:1-2 Joel 3:17 Isaiah 65:18 Hosea 2:2 John 8:36 Psalm 87:3-6 Hosea 4:5 Isaiah 50:1 Galatians 4:22 Romans 6:18 Hosea 2:5 Romans 6:14 Isaiah 2:2-3 Isaiah 62:1-2 Revelation 21:10-27 Isaiah 66:10 1 Peter 2:16 Isaiah 52:9 Galatians 5:1 Revelation 17:5 -
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For it is written, “Rejoice, thou barren woman that bearest not, break forth into a joyful cry, thou that dost not travail with child. For the desolate woman has many children—more indeed than she who has the husband.”
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But you, brethren, like , are children born in fulfilment of a promise.
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- 29 Yet just as, at that time, the child born in the common course of nature persecuted the one whose birth was due to the power of the , so it is now.
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But what says the Scripture? “Send away the slave-girl and her son, for never shall the slave-girl’s son share the inheritance with the son of the free woman.”
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Therefore, brethren, since we are not the children of a slave-girl, but of the free woman—
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