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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 4, Verse 8

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Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
King James Version
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?
American Standard Version
but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?
New English Translation
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
World English Bible
However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
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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?
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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,