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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 4, Verse 13

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Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
King James Version
And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.
American Standard Version
and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.
New English Translation
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.
World English Bible
but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
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Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
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Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
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They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
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But [it is] good to be zealously affected always in [a] good [thing], and not only when I am present with you.
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My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
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I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
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Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
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For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
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But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise.
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Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.