🕊️WEB · Galatians 4:19

What does Galatians 4:19 mean?

"My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—"

— Galatians 4:19 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

16

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

17

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

18

But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

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My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

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but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

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Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

22

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.

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