Galatians 4:17-27
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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.
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26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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27 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.