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  "citation": "Galatians 4 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "As long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all,",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Therefore, now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also through God.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature, are not gods.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements which you desire to serve again?",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "You observe days and months and times, and years.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Be ye as I, because I also am as you brethren, I beseech you. You have not injured me at all.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "And you know how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would have given them to me.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "And I would willingly be present with you now and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman was by promise.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is Agar.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry thou that travailest not: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was after the spirit: so also it is now.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "But 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 free woman.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free.",
      "citation": "Galatians 4:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
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