Galatians 4:3-11
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In the same way we also, when we were children, c were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
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But d when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, e born f of woman, born g under the law,
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h to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive i adoption as sons.
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And because you are sons, God has sent j the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
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So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then k an heir through God.
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Formerly, when you l did not know God, you m were enslaved to those that by nature n are not gods.
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But now that you have come to know God, or rather o to be known by God, p how can you turn back again to q the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
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r You observe days and months and seasons and years!
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I am afraid s I may have labored over you in vain.
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Galatians 2:4
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery -
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1 Timothy 2:6
Who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
Mark 1:15
And saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.
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Philippians 2:7
But made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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1 Timothy 2:15
Yet she will be saved through childbearing - if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
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Luke 2:21 - 22
And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Luke 2:27
And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law.
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Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree" -
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Galatians 3:26
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Romans 8:15
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!
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Romans 5:5
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Acts 16:7
And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.
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Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
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1 Corinthians 1:21
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 John 4:8
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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Ephesians 2:11 - 12
Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands -
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
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2 Chronicles 13:9
Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord...
Isaiah 37:19
And have cast their gods into the fire. For the...
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, even though they...
Jeremiah 5:7
How can I pardon you? Your children have forsak...
Jeremiah 16:20
Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to ...
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1 Corinthians 8:3
But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
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Galatians 3:3
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
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Romans 8:3
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.
Hebrews 7:18
For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
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Romans 14:5
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Colossians 2:16
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
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Galatians 2:2
I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
Galatians 5:2
Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
Galatians 5:4
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.
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