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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 4, Verse 5

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To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
King James Version
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
American Standard Version
And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
New English Translation
But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.
World English Bible
that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
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Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
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Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
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But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
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Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
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I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
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Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all.
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Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
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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.
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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?