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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GAL.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GAL.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GAL.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">under the basic principles</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the world. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GAL.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GAL.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:5 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">adoption to sonship </span><span class="ft">is a legal term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, &#8220;</span><span class="tl"><span class="content">Abba,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">Aramaic for </span><span class="fqa">Father</span></span></span><span class="content"> Father.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GAL.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So you are no longer a slave, but God&#8217;s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Concern for the Galatians</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GAL.4.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GAL.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GAL.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But now that you know God&#8212;or rather are known by God&#8212;how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">principles</span></span></span><span class="content">? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GAL.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GAL.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GAL.4.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GAL.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. You did me no wrong. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GAL.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GAL.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GAL.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.4.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GAL.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may have zeal for them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GAL.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GAL.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GAL.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hagar and Sarah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GAL.4.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GAL.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GAL.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GAL.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GAL.4.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GAL.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GAL.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GAL.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Be glad, barren woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">you who never bore a child;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">shout for joy and cry aloud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">you who were never in labor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">because more are the children of the desolate woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">than of her who has a husband.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:27 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.54.1">Isaiah 54:1</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GAL.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GAL.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GAL.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But what does Scripture say? &#8220;Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman&#8217;s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman&#8217;s son.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:30 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="GEN.21.10">Gen. 21:10</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GAL.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.18.1"><span class="content">and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.18.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.18.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Fools find no pleasure in understanding</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.18.2"><span class="content">but delight in airing their own opinions.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.18.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.18.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When wickedness comes, so does contempt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.18.3"><span class="content">and with shame comes reproach.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.18.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.18.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The words of the mouth are deep waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.18.4"><span class="content">but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.18.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.18.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is not good to be partial to the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.18.5"><span class="content">and so deprive the innocent of justice.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.18.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.18.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The lips of fools bring them strife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.18.6"><span class="content">and their mouths invite a beating.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.18.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.18.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The mouths of fools are their undoing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.18.7"><span class="content">and their lips are a snare to their very lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.18.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.18.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.18.8"><span class="content">they go down to the inmost parts.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.18.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.18.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">One who is slack in his work</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.18.9"><span class="content">is brother to one who destroys.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.18.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.18.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a fortified tower;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.18.10"><span class="content">the righteous run to it and are safe.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.18.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.18.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.18.11"><span class="content">they imagine it a wall too high to scale.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.18.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.18.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Before a downfall the heart is haughty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.18.12"><span class="content">but humility comes before honor.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.18.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.18.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">To answer before listening&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.18.13"><span class="content">that is folly and shame.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.18.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.18.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The human spirit can endure in sickness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.18.14"><span class="content">but a crushed spirit who can bear?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.18.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.18.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.18.15"><span class="content">for the ears of the wise seek it out.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.18.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.18.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">A gift opens the way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.18.16"><span class="content">and ushers the giver into the presence of the great.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.18.16"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.18.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.18.17"><span class="content">until someone comes forward and cross-examines.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.18.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.18.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Casting the lot settles disputes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.18.18"><span class="content">and keeps strong opponents apart.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.18.18"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.18.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A brother wronged is more unyielding than a fortified city;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.18.19"><span class="content">disputes are like the barred gates of a citadel.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.18.19"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.18.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">From the fruit of their mouth a person&#8217;s stomach is filled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.18.20"><span class="content">with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.18.20"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.18.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The tongue has the power of life and death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.18.21"><span class="content">and those who love it will eat its fruit.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.18.21"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.18.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He who finds a wife finds what is good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.18.22"><span class="content">and receives favor from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.18.22"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.18.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The poor plead for mercy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.18.23"><span class="content">but the rich answer harshly.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.18.23"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.18.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.18.24"><span class="content">but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.18.24"></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Walk with the wise and become wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.13.20"><span class="content">for a companion of fools suffers harm.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.13.20"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.13.20"></span></div>
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