Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 4

109 catchwords838 parallels

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Galatians 4 . 1 , We were under the law till Christ came , as the heir is under the guardian till he be of age; Galatians 4 . 5 , But Christ freed us from the law; Galatians 4 . 7 , therefore we are servants no longer to it; Galatians 4 . 14 , He remembers their good will to him , and his to them; Galatians 4 . 22 , and shows that we are the sons of Abraham by the freewoman.

Galatians 4:1

What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.

Galatians 4:1 · BSB

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Galatians 4:2

He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.

Galatians 4:2 · BSB

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Galatians 4:3

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

Galatians 4:3 · BSB

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or , rudiments

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Galatians 4:4

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Galatians 4:4 · BSB

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Galatians 4:5

to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

Galatians 4:5 · BSB

redeem16 parallels

that we7 parallels

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Galatians 4:6

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

Galatians 4:6 · BSB

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Galatians 4:7

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.

Galatians 4:7 · BSB

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Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

Galatians 4:8 · BSB

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Galatians 4:9

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

Galatians 4:9 · BSB

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or , back

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or , rudiments

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Galatians 4:10

You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!

Galatians 4:10 · BSB

the whole verse7 parallels

Leviticus 23 . 1-44

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Galatians 4:11

I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.

Galatians 4:11 · BSB

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Galatians 4:12

I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

Galatians 4:12 · BSB

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Galatians 4:13

You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

Galatians 4:13 · BSB

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Galatians 4:14

And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.

Galatians 4:14 · BSB

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Galatians 4:15

What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Galatians 4:15 · BSB

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Where is or , What was

Galatians 4:16

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Galatians 4:16 · BSB

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Galatians 4:17

Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.

Galatians 4:17 · BSB

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or , exclude us

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Galatians 4:18

Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.

Galatians 4:18 · BSB

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Galatians 4:19

My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

Galatians 4:19 · BSB

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Galatians 4:20

how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.

Galatians 4:20 · BSB

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stand in doubt of you1 parallel

or , am perplexed for you

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Galatians 4:21

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?

Galatians 4:21 · BSB

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Galatians 4:22

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

Galatians 4:22 · BSB

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Galatians 4:23

His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

Galatians 4:23 · BSB

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Galatians 4:24

These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

Galatians 4:24 · BSB

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covenants or , testament

Sinai Gr. Sina

Galatians 4:25

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

Galatians 4:25 · BSB

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answereth to or , is in the same rank with

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Galatians 4:26 · BSB

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Galatians 4:27

For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband."

Galatians 4:27 · BSB

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Galatians 4:28

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Galatians 4:28 · BSB

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Galatians 4:29

At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

Galatians 4:29 · BSB

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Galatians 4:30

But what does the Scripture say? "Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman's son."

Galatians 4:30 · BSB

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Galatians 4:31

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

Galatians 4:31 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web16 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations Galatians 4:27 → Isaiah 54:1, Galatians 4:30 → Genesis 21:10
Allusions Galatians 4:21-31 → Genesis 16-21, Galatians 4:24-25 → Exodus 19-20
Echoes Galatians 4:4 → Genesis 3:15
Trajectories
Covenant Succession (Inheritance and Election), Eve (Mother of All Living), Hagar and Ishmael (Children of the Flesh), Isaac (Child of Promise), Marriage (Christ and His Bride), New Jerusalem (Ultimate Temple-City), Sarah (Mother of Promise)
Longitudinal Themes
Sonship
Chiasms
Shaped Galatians 04:01–07, Galatians 04:08–20, Galatians 04:21–05:01
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