Liturgy Gospel
Paulines Epistle
Paul, the servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, appointed to the Gospel of God.
A reading from the Epistle of our teacher Paul to the Galatians .
May his blessings be upon us.
Amen.
Galatians 4 : 19 - 5 : 1
Chapter 4
| 19 | My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
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| 20 | I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.
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| 21 | Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
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| 22 | For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman.
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| 23 | But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise,
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| 24 | which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar--
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| 25 | for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children--
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| 26 | but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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| 27 | For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren, You who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband."
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| 28 | Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
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| 29 | But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
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| 30 | Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman."
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| 31 | So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
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Chapter 5
| 1 | Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
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The grace of God the Father be with you all.
Amen.
