New American Standard Bible 2020

Galatians 4:16-23

16So have I become your enemy 1by 2telling you the truth? 17They eagerly seek you, not 3in a commendable way, but they want to shut you out so that you will seek them. 18But it is good always to be eagerly sought 4in a commendable way, and 5not only when I am present with you. 19 6My children, with whom 7I am again in labor until 8Christ is formed in you-- 20but I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone of voice, for 9I am at a loss about you!

21Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not 10listen to the Law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, 11one by the slave woman and 12one by the free woman. 23But 13the son by the slave woman 14was born according to the flesh, and 15the son by the free woman through the promise.

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

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