In the same way we also, when we were children, (A)were enslaved to the elementary principles[a] of the world.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:3 Or elemental spirits; also verse 9

But now that you have come to know God, or rather (A)to be known by God, (B)how can you turn back again to (C)the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

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24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two (A)covenants. (B)One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;[a] she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:25 Some manuscripts For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia

20 For you bear it if someone (A)makes slaves of you, or (B)devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or (C)strikes you in the face.

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15 For (A)you did not receive (B)the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of (C)adoption as sons, by whom we cry, (D)“Abba! Father!”

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