Galatians 4:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

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  • John 1:12-13 : 12 To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name: 13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
  • John 8:36 : 36 If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
  • Heb 2:14-15 : 14 And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One; 15 And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was. 2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

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  • Gal 4:21-30
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    21Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

    22Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman.

    23Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

    24Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar.

    25Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.

    26But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.

    27For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

    28Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

    29But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

    30What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

  • Gal 4:5-7
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    5That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.

    6And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.

    7So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

  • John 8:35-36
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    35Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

    36If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

  • Gal 4:1-3
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    1But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

    2But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.

    3So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

  • Rom 8:14-16
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    14And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

    15For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

    16The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:

  • Gal 3:28-29
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    28There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

    29And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

  • Gen 21:10
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    10So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

  • Gal 3:25-26
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    25But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.

    26Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • John 8:32-33
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    32And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.

    33They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.

    22For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

    23It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.

  • Rom 9:7-8
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    7And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

    8That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

  • Rom 7:6
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    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

  • Gal 3:7
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    7Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

  • Rom 4:16
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    16For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

  • Matt 17:26
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    26And when he said, From other people, Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.

  • Rom 6:18
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    18And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

  • Gal 5:13
    69%

    13Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

  • Rom 8:21
    69%

    21That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.

  • Rom 4:1
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    1What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?

  • Phlm 1:16
    68%

    16No longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother, very dear to me specially, but much more to you, in the flesh as well as in the Lord.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

  • Rom 8:12
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    12So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

  • Rom 6:20
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    20When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

  • Gal 3:15
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    15Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.

  • Rom 6:22
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    22But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.