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## Galatians 4:11-20 in Context (Verses 8–23 KJV)
 
 [8 ](/kjv/galatians/4/8) Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/galatians/4/9) 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 ](/kjv/galatians/4/10) Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/galatians/4/11) I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/galatians/4/12) Brethren, I beseech you, be as I *am*; for I *am* as ye *are*: ye have not injured me at all.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/galatians/4/13) Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/galatians/4/14) 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 ](/kjv/galatians/4/15) 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 ](/kjv/galatians/4/16) Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
 
 [17 ](/kjv/galatians/4/17) They zealously affect you, *but* not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/galatians/4/18) But *it is* good to be zealously affected always in *a* good *thing*, and not only when I am present with you.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/galatians/4/19) My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
 
 [20 ](/kjv/galatians/4/20) I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/galatians/4/21) Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
 
 [22 ](/kjv/galatians/4/22) For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/galatians/4/23) But he *who was* of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman *was* by promise.
 
[Galatians 3](/kjv/galatians/3) [Galatians 5](/kjv/galatians/5)

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