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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 4, Verse 9

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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?
King James Version
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
American Standard Version
Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
New English Translation
For it is written:“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”
World English Bible
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
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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,
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I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.