Scripture Readings

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Galatians 3:23-4:5 (Epistle)

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But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.
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Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
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For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
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For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,
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but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.
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Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
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But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
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to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.