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Galatians 4:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

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Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.

But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.

Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar.

Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.

So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:




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