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This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.
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There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate.
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So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.
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So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
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Paul’s Concern for the Galatians
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
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His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.
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These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
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Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
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But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
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Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
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Freedom in Christ
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
