Galatians 4:13-25
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13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
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14 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.
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15 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.
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16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
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17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
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18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
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19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
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20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
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21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
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22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
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23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
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24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
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25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.