Family Verses

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: {elements: or, rudiments}

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. {answereth to: or, is in the same rank with}

But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

For it is written, Rejoice, {thou} barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.