Galatians 4:4

New International Reader's Version

But then the chosen time came. God sent his Son. A woman gave birth to him. He was born under the authority of the law.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman hate each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. Her son will crush your head. And you will bite his heel.”

Genesis 49:10

The right to rule will not leave Judah. The ruler’s scepter will not be taken from between his feet. It will be his until the king it belongs to will come. The nations will obey that king.

Isaiah 48:16

“Come close and listen to me. “From the first time I said Cyrus was coming, I did not do it in secret. When he comes, I will be there.” The Lord and King has filled me with his Spirit. People of Israel, he has sent me to you.

Isaiah 7:14

The Lord himself will give you a sign. The virgin is going to have a baby. She will give birth to a son. And he will be called Immanuel.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you wander, my people Israel, who are not faithful to me? I will create a new thing on earth. The woman will return to the man.”

Zechariah 6:12

Give Joshua a message from the Lord who rules over all. He says, ‘Here is the man whose name is the Branch. He will branch out and build my temple.

Malachi 3:1

The Lord who rules over all says, “I will send my messenger. He will prepare my way for me. Then suddenly the Lord you are looking for will come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant will come. He is the one you long for.”

Numbers 28:22

Include a male goat as a sin offering. It will pay for your sin.

Matthew 1:23

“The virgin is going to have a baby. She will give birth to a son. And he will be called Immanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14) The name Immanuel means “God with us.”

Matthew 3:15

Jesus replied, “Let it be this way for now. It is right for us to do this. It carries out God’s holy plan.” Then John agreed.

Matthew 5:17

“Do not think I have come to get rid of what is written in the Law or in the Prophets. I have not come to do this. Instead, I have come to fulfill what is written.

Mark 1:15

“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Turn away from your sins and believe the good news!”

Luke 1:31

You will become pregnant and give birth to a son. You must call him Jesus.

Luke 1:35

The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come to you. The power of the Most High God will cover you. So the holy one that is born will be called the Son of God.

Luke 2:7

She gave birth to her first baby. It was a boy. She wrapped him in large strips of cloth. Then she placed him in a manger. That’s because there was no guest room where they could stay.

Luke 20:44

David calls him ‘Lord.’ So how can he be David’s son?”

John 1:14

The Word became a human being. He made his home with us. We have seen his glory. It is the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father. And the Word was full of grace and truth.

John 10:36

If that is true, what about the one the Father set apart as his very own? What about this one the Father sent into the world? Why do you charge me with saying a very evil thing? Is it because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?

John 3:16

God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son. Anyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life.

John 6:38

I have not come down from heaven to do what I want to do. I have come to do what the one who sent me wants me to do.

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me. I have come here from God. I have not come on my own. God sent me.

Acts 1:7

He said to them, “You should not be concerned about times or dates. The Father has set them by his own authority.

Romans 1:3

The good news is about God’s Son. He was born into the family line of King David.

Romans 15:8

I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews. He teaches us that God is true. He shows us that God will keep the promises he made to the founders of our nation.

Romans 5:6

At just the right time Christ died for ungodly people. He died for us when we had no power of our own.

Romans 8:3

The written law was made weak by the power of sin. But God did what the written law could not do. He made his Son to be like those who live under the power of sin. God sent him to be an offering for sin. Jesus suffered God’s judgment against our sin.

Romans 9:5

The founders of our nation belong to them. The Messiah comes from their family line. He is God over all. May he always be praised! Amen.

Ephesians 1:10

It will all come about when history has been completed. God will then bring together all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.

Colossians 2:14

He wiped out what the law said that we owed. The law stood against us. It judged us. But he has taken it away and nailed it to the cross.

1 Timothy 2:6

He gave himself to pay for the sins of all people. We have been told this message at just the right time.

1 Timothy 3:16

There is no doubt that true godliness comes from this great mystery. Jesus came as a human being. The Holy Spirit proved that he was the Son of God. He was seen by angels. He was preached among the nations. People in the world believed in him. He was taken up to heaven in glory.

Hebrews 2:14

Those children have bodies made out of flesh and blood. So Jesus became human like them in order to die for them. By doing this, he could break the power of the devil. The devil is the one who rules over the kingdom of death.

Hebrews 9:10

They deal only with food and drink and different kinds of special washings. They are rules people had to obey only until the new covenant came.

1 John 4:14

The Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. We have seen it and are witnesses to it.

1 John 4:2

Here is how you can recognize the Spirit of God. Every spirit agreeing that Jesus Christ came in a human body belongs to God.