I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain (4:11)

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all (4:12)

Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first (4:13)

And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus (4:14)

Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me (4:15)

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? (4:16)

They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them (4:17)

But [it is] good to be zealously affected always in [a] good [thing], and not only when I am present with you (4:18)

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, (4:19)

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you (4:20)

Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? (4:21)

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman (4:22)

But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise (4:23)

Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar (4:24)

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children (4:25)

But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all (4:26)

For it is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband (4:27)

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise (4:28)

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now (4:29)

Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman (4:30)

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free (4:31)

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