Galatians 4:3
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3 So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental principles[a] of the world.(A)
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- 4.3 Or spirits
Colossians 2:20
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Warnings against False Teachers
20 If with Christ you died to the elemental principles[a] of the world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,(A)
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Colossians 2:8
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8 Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles[a] of the world, and not according to Christ.(A)
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Galatians 4:9
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9 Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental principles?[a] How can you want to be enslaved to them again?(A)
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Galatians 2:4
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4 But because of false brothers and sisters secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us(A)—
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Acts 15:10
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10 Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?(A)
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Galatians 4:31-5:1
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31 So then, brothers and sisters, we are children, not of an enslaved woman but of the free woman. 5 1
Hebrews 7:16
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16 one who has become a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent but through the power of an indestructible life.(A)
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Galatians 4:25
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25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia[a] and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
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- 4.25 Other ancient authorities read For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia
Galatians 3:23-25
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23 Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be reckoned as righteous[a] by faith.(A) 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian,
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Romans 8:15
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15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba![a] Father!”(A)
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- 8.15 Aramaic for Father
Matthew 11:28
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28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.(A)
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Galatians 3:19
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The Purpose of the Law
19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring[a] would come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.(A)
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- 3.19 Gk seed
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