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11 Amen, amen, I say to you, we speak of what we know and we testify to what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.(A) 12 If I tell you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?(B)

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11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know,(A) and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.(B) 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

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43 I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.(A) 44 How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?(B)

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43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God[a]?(A)

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  1. John 5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One

46 I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness.(A) 47 And if anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I do not condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save the world.(B) 48 Whoever rejects me and does not accept my words has something to judge him: the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on the last day,(C) 49 because I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak.(D) 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So what I say, I say as the Father told me.”

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46 I have come into the world as a light,(A) so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.(B) 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them(C) at the last day. 49 For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me(D) to say all that I have spoken. 50 I know that his command leads to eternal life.(E) So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”(F)

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26 For through faith you are all children of God[a] in Christ Jesus.(A)

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  1. 3:26 Children of God: literally “sons,” in contrast to the young child under the disciplinarian in Gal 3:24–25. The term includes males and females (Gal 3:28).

26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God(A) through faith,

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As proof that you are children,[a] God sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”(A) So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.(B)

Do Not Throw This Freedom Away.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:6 Children: see note on Gal 3:26; here in contrast to the infant or young person not of age (Gal 3:1, 3). Abba: cf. Mk 14:36 and the note; Rom 8:15.
  2. 4:8–11 On the basis of the arguments advanced from Gal 3:1 through Gal 4:7, Paul now launches his appeal to the Galatians with the question, how can you turn back to the slavery of the law (Gal 4:9)? The question is posed with reference to bondage to the elemental powers (see note on Gal 4:3) because the Galatians had originally been converted to Christianity from paganism, not Judaism (Gal 4:8). The use of the direct question is like Gal 3:3–5.

Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son(A) into our hearts,(B) the Spirit who calls out, “Abba,[a] Father.”(C) So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.(D)

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  1. Galatians 4:6 Aramaic for Father

he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will,(A)

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he[a] predestined(A) us for adoption to sonship[b](B) through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure(C) and will—

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  1. Ephesians 1:5 Or sight in love. He
  2. Ephesians 1:5 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a legal term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture.

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.(A)

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  1. 3:2 When it is revealed: or “when he is revealed” (the subject of the verb could be Christ).

Dear friends,(A) now we are children of God,(B) and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a](C) we shall be like him,(D) for we shall see him as he is.(E)

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  1. 1 John 3:2 Or when it is made known