Galatians 4:2
but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
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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;
- Gal 4:3-108 verses84%
3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"
7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
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?
10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
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23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
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21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.
23 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
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30 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."
31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.
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4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
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15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
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19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--
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1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
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28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
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14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
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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6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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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.
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22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
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21 He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.
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4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
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1 Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
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15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
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14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
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2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.
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2 A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
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18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);
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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;
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17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
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20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
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10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.
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35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
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53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
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19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
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27 He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,