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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 4, Verse 15

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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.
King James Version
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
American Standard Version
So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?
New English Translation
Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!
World English Bible
What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
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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.
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But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.