New American Standard Bible 1995

Galatians 4:16-23

16So have I become your enemy 1by 2telling you the truth? 17They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them. 18But it is good always to be eagerly sought in a commendable 3manner, and 4not only when I am present with you. 19 5My children, with whom 6I am again in labor until 7Christ is formed in you-- 20but I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for 8I am perplexed about you.

21Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not 9listen to the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, 10one by the bondwoman and 11one by the free woman. 23But 12the son by the bondwoman 13was born according to the flesh, and 14the son by the free woman through the promise.

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Notes

1. Galatians 4:16 Amos 5:10 ↩
2. Galatians 4:16 Or dealing truthfully with you ↩
3. Galatians 4:18 Or thing ↩
4. Galatians 4:18 Gal 4:13f ↩
5. Galatians 4:19 1 John 2:1 ↩
6. Galatians 4:19 1 Cor 4:15 ↩
7. Galatians 4:19 Eph 4:13 ↩
8. Galatians 4:20 2 Cor 4:8 ↩
9. Galatians 4:21 Luke 16:29 ↩
10. Galatians 4:22 Gen 16:15 ↩
11. Galatians 4:22 Gen 21:2 ↩
12. Galatians 4:23 Rom 9:7; Gal 4:29 ↩
13. Galatians 4:23 Lit has been born ↩
14. Galatians 4:23 Gen 17:16ff; 18:10ff; 21:1; Gal 4:28; Heb 11:11 ↩

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