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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 4, Verse 14

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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.
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
New English Translation
Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.
World English Bible
That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
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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.
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For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.