Verse 15
Galatians 4:15
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
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What then was the gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
Original Language Text
greek
⸀ποῦ ⸀οὖν ὁ μακαρισμὸς ὑμῶν; μαρτυρῶ γὰρ ὑμῖν ὅτι εἰ δυνατὸν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑμῶν ⸀ἐξορύξαντες ἐδώκατέ μοι.
English Translation
Where then is your blessing? For I testify to you that if it were possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 4 Context
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But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is...
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but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.
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So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:
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but when the fullness of the time came, God (Elohim) sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under...
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that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
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And because ye are sons, God (Elohim) sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abb...
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So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God (Elohim) thro...
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Howbeit at that time, not knowing God (Elohim), ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no god...
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but now that ye have come to know God (Elohim), or rather to be known by God (Elohim), how turn ye b...
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Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
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I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.
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I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, for I also am become as ye are. Ye did me no wrong:
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but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:
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and my trial that was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of G...
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15
What then was the gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would hav...
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So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?
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They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut us out, that ye may seek them.
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But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present...
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My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you—
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but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about 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, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.
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Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born throug...
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Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing c...
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For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: and she is in bo...
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But the Jerusalem that 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...
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Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
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But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also...
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Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid sha...
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So then, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.
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