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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 4, Verse 16

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Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
King James Version
They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
American Standard Version
They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
New English Translation
And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
World English Bible
So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
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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.
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For it is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.