From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for December 8   
      
   Galatians Chapter 4   
      
   1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing   
   from a servant, though he be lord of all;   
      
   2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.   
      
   3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements   
   of the world:   
      
   4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son,   
   made of a woman, made under the law,   
      
   5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the   
   adoption of sons.   
      
   6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son   
   into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.   
      
   7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an   
   heir of God through Christ.   
      
   8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by   
   nature are no gods.   
      
   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 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.   
      
   11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.   
      
   12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not   
   injured me at all.   
      
   13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto   
   you at the first.   
      
   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 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 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?   
      
   17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you,   
   that ye might affect them.   
      
   18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and   
   not only when I am present with you.   
      
   19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be   
   formed in you,   
      
   20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I   
   stand in doubt of you.   
      
   21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?   
      
   22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid,   
   the other by a freewoman.   
      
   23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of   
   the freewoman was by promise.   
      
   24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the   
   one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.   
      
   25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem   
   which now is, and is in bondage with her children.   
      
   26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.   
      
   27 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.   
      
   28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.   
      
   29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was   
   born after the Spirit, even so it is now.   
      
   30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her   
   son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the   
   freewoman.   
      
   31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.   
      
   Galatians Chapter 5   
      
   1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us   
   free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.   
      
   2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall   
   profit you nothing.   
      
   3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a   
   debtor to do the whole law.   
      
   4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified   
   by the law; ye are fallen from grace.   
      
   5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.   
      
   6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor   
   uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.   
      
   7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?   
      
   8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.   
      
   9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.   
      
   10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none   
   otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment,   
   whosoever he be.   
      
   11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer   
   persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.   
      
   12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.   
      
   13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty   
   for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.   
      
   14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt   
   love thy neighbour as thyself.   
      
   15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not   
   consumed one of another.   
      
   16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust   
   of the flesh.   
      
   17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the   
   flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do   
   the things that ye would.   
      
   18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.   
      
   19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,   
   fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,   
      
   20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife,   
   seditions, heresies,   
      
   21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the   
   which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they   
   which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.   
      
   22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,   
   gentleness, goodness, faith,   
      
   23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.   
      
   24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the   
   affections and lusts.   
      
   25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.   
      
   26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying   
   one another.   
      
   Galatians Chapter 6   
      
   1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual,   
   restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest   
   thou also be tempted.   
      
   2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.   
      
   3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he   
   deceiveth himself.   
      
   4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing   
   in himself alone, and not in another.   
      
   5 For every man shall bear his own burden.   
      
   6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth   
   in all good things.   
      
   7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that   
   shall he also reap.   
      
   8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;   
   but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.   
      
   9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall   
   reap, if we faint not.   
      
      
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