Galatians 4:1
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,
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Galatians 4:1
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,
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Galatians 4:2
but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
Galatians 4:3
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
Galatians 4:8
However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
Galatians 4:9
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?
Colossians 2:20
If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
Hebrews 9:9
This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,
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Galatians 4:4
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
Galatians 4:5
that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children.
Galatians 4:6
And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
Galatians 4:7
So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Hebrews 1:2
has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
Romans 8:15
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
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1 Corinthians 3:1
Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:2
I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,
Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
Hebrews 5:12
For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
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Galatians 3:23
But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Galatians 3:24
So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 3:25
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
Galatians 4:23
However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
Galatians 4:31
So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.
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Genesis 21:12
God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.
Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.
Galatians 3:18
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
Galatians 3:19
Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
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Genesis 24:2
Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
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