Galatians 4 (NET)

Galatians 4:1¹Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:23Gal 4:29Gen 24:2-3

Galatians 4:2²But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Galatians 4:3³So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:20Col 2:8Gal 4:9Gal 2:4Gal 4:31-5:1Acts 15:10Rom 8:15John 8:31Gal 3:19Gal 3:23-25

Galatians 4:4⁴But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 7:14Mark 1:15John 1:14Rom 1:31 John 4:14Eph 1:10John 3:16Matt 1:23Heb 10:5-7Luke 2:7

Galatians 4:5⁵to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:15Eph 1:51 Pet 1:18-20Eph 1:7Gal 3:13Heb 9:12Rev 5:9Gal 3:26Gal 4:7Rom 8:23

Galatians 4:6⁶And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Father!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:15-17Rom 5:5Rom 8:92 Cor 3:17Eph 2:18Phil 1:19Eph 4:30Jude 1:20John 15:26John 16:7

Galatians 4:7⁷So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:29-4:2Rom 8:16-17Gal 3:261 Cor 3:21-23Gal 4:5-6Gal 4:31-5:1Ps 73:262 Cor 6:16-18Lam 3:24Gen 15:1

Galatians 4:8⁸Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 8:4Eph 2:11-121 Thess 1:91 Thess 4:52 Thess 1:81 Cor 1:211 Cor 10:19-201 Pet 4:32 Chr 13:9Isa 37:19

Galatians 4:9⁹But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 8:3Gal 3:3Rom 8:31 John 5:201 Chr 28:92 Pet 2:201 Cor 13:122 Cor 4:62 Tim 2:19Eph 1:17

Galatians 4:10¹⁰You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:16-17Rom 14:5Lev 23:1-44Lev 25:13Num 28:1-29

Galatians 4:11¹¹I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 3:52 John 1:8Gal 2:2Phil 2:161 Cor 15:582 Cor 11:2-32 Cor 12:20-21Acts 16:6Gal 4:20Gal 5:2-4

Galatians 4:12¹²I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 2:51 Kgs 22:41 Cor 9:20-23Gen 34:152 Cor 6:13Acts 21:21Gal 2:14Gal 6:14Phil 3:7-8Gal 6:18

Galatians 4:13¹³But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:32 Cor 12:7-102 Cor 10:102 Cor 11:302 Cor 11:62 Cor 13:4Gal 1:6Acts 16:6

Galatians 4:14¹⁴and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 10:401 Thess 2:13Heb 13:22 Cor 5:202 Sam 14:172 Sam 19:27Isa 53:2-3Luke 10:16Mal 2:7Zech 12:8

Galatians 4:15¹⁵Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 5:21 John 3:16-18Col 4:131 Thess 2:81 Thess 5:132 Cor 8:3Gal 3:14Gal 4:19Gal 5:22Gal 6:4

Galatians 4:16¹⁶So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:10Prov 9:8John 8:45Gal 5:7Ps 141:51 Kgs 22:8Gal 2:5John 7:71 Kgs 18:17-181 Kgs 21:20

Galatians 4:17¹⁷They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:13-15Rom 16:182 Pet 2:31 Cor 4:8Matt 23:151 Cor 11:21 Cor 4:182 Cor 11:32 Pet 2:18Gal 6:12-13

Galatians 4:18¹⁸However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 2:12Phil 1:27Rev 3:191 Cor 15:58Gal 4:13Ps 119:139Titus 2:14Isa 59:17John 2:17Num 25:11-13

Galatians 4:19¹⁹My children—I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:13Rom 8:29Rom 13:14Eph 4:24Col 4:12Col 3:101 Cor 4:14-15Phil 2:5Col 1:27Jas 1:18

Galatians 4:20²⁰I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:17-181 Cor 4:19-211 Thess 3:9

Galatians 4:21²¹Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:10Rom 3:19Gal 3:23-24Gal 4:9Matt 22:29-32John 15:25John 5:46-47Rom 10:3-10Rom 6:14Rom 7:5-6

Galatians 4:22²²For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 16:15Gen 21:10Gen 16:2-4Gen 21:1-2

Galatians 4:23²³But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:11Gen 21:1-2Rom 9:7-8Gal 4:28-29Gen 18:10-14Gen 17:15-19Rom 4:18-21Rom 10:8

Galatians 4:24²⁴These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:9-131 Cor 10:11Gen 16:15-16Gen 16:8Gen 25:12Heb 10:15-18Heb 12:24Hos 11:10Matt 13:351 Cor 10:4

Galatians 4:25²⁵Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 1:17Matt 23:37Ps 68:17Acts 1:11Deut 33:2Heb 12:18Judg 5:5Luke 13:34Luke 19:44Ps 68:8

Galatians 4:26²⁶But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:22Phil 3:20Rev 21:2Mic 4:1-2Rev 3:12Isa 66:10Isa 65:18Ps 87:3-6Rom 6:14Isa 62:1-2

Galatians 4:27²⁷For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 54:1-5Ps 113:9Ruth 4:14-161 Sam 2:51 Tim 5:5Ruth 1:11-132 Sam 13:20Isa 49:21

Galatians 4:28²⁸But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:23Rom 9:8-9Gal 3:29Rom 4:13-18Acts 3:25

Galatians 4:29²⁹But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:9Rom 8:13Gal 5:111 Thess 2:14-15Gal 4:23Heb 10:33-34John 15:9John 3:5Matt 23:34-37Gal 6:12-14

Galatians 4:30³⁰But what does the scripture say? “Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son ” of the free woman.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:10-12John 8:35Rom 8:15-17Gal 3:22Gal 3:8Jas 4:5Rom 11:2Rom 11:7-11Rom 4:3

Galatians 4:31³¹Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:1Gal 5:13John 8:36John 1:12-131 John 3:1-2Heb 2:14-15