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Galatians 4:8-20

Title:

Faith and the law

King James Scripture:

8 ¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by  nature are no gods. 9 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? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 11  I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

12 ¶ Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not  injured me at all. 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the  gospel unto you at the first. 14 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. 15 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. 16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you  the truth?

17 ¶ They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you,  that ye might affect them. 18 But [it is] good to be zealously affected always  in [a] good [thing], and not only when I am present with you.

19 ¶ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be  formed in you, 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice;  for I stand in doubt of you.

Hebrew/Greek Scripture:

8 Ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν οὐκ εἰδότες θεὸν ἐδουλεύσατε τοῖς φύσει μὴ οὖσι θεοῖς· 9 νῦν δὲ γνόντες θεόν, μᾶλλον δὲ γνωσθέντες ὑπὸ θεοῦ, πῶς ἐπιστρέφετε πάλιν ἐπὶ τὰ ἀσθενῆ καὶ πτωχὰ στοιχεῖα, οἷς πάλιν ἄνωθεν δουλεύειν θέλετε; 10 ἡμέρας παρατηρεῖσθε καὶ μῆνας καὶ καιροὺς καὶ ἐνιαυτούς. 11 φοβοῦμαι ὑμᾶς μή πως εἰκῇ κεκοπίακα εἰς ὑμᾶς.
12 Γίνεσθε ὡς ἐγώ, ὅτι κἀγὼ ὡς ὑμεῖς, ἀδελφοί, δέομαι ὑμῶν. οὐδέν με ἠδικήσατε· 13 οἴδατε δὲ ὅτι διʼ ἀσθένειαν τῆς σαρκὸς εὐηγγελισάμην ὑμῖν τὸ πρότερον, 14 καὶ τὸν πειρασμὸν ὑμῶν ἐν τῇ σαρκί μου οὐκ ἐξουθενήσατε οὐδὲ ἐξεπτύσατε, ἀλλὰ ὡς ἄγγελον θεοῦ ἐδέξασθέ με, ὡς Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν. 15 ποῦ οὖν ὁ μακαρισμὸς ὑμῶν; μαρτυρῶ γὰρ ὑμῖν ὅτι εἰ δυνατὸν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑμῶν ἐξορύξαντες ἐδώκατέ μοι. 16 ὥστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν; 17 ζηλοῦσιν ὑμᾶς οὐ καλῶς, ἀλλὰ ἐκκλεῖσαι ὑμᾶς θέλουσιν, ἵνα αὐτοὺς ζηλοῦτε. 18 καλὸν δὲ ζηλοῦσθαι ἐν καλῷ πάντοτε, καὶ μὴ μόνον ἐν τῷ παρεῖναί με πρὸς ὑμᾶς, 19 τέκνα μου, οὓς πάλιν ὠδίνω μέχρις οὗ μορφωθῇ Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν· 20 ἤθελον δὲ παρεῖναι πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἄρτι, καὶ ἀλλάξαι τὴν φωνήν μου, ὅτι ἀποροῦμαι ἐν ὑμῖν.

Michael W. Holmes, The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Lexham Press, 2010), Ga 4:8–20.

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