Galatians 4:1-8
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I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,
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but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
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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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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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Cross References
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Jeremiah 16:20
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