<n id="1" /> it was said to her, &#8220;<b><i>The older will serve the youngeri>b>,&#8221;<n id="2" />

Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.<n id="1" />

Obey<n id="1" /> with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord<n id="2" /> and not people,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate<n id="1" /> the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise<n id="2" /> the other. You cannot serve God and money.<n id="3" />p>

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate<n id="1" /> the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise<n id="2" /> the other. You cannot serve God and money.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.<n id="1" />p>

But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.

because you know that you will receive your<n id="1" /> inheritance<n id="2" /> from the Lord as the reward. Serve<n id="3" /> the Lord Christ.

&#8220;We are descendants<n id="1" /> of Abraham,&#8221; they replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;and have never been anyone&#8217;s slaves! How can you say,<n id="3" /> &#8216;You will become free&#8217;?&#8221;

<b><i>But I will punishi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>the nation they serve as slavesi>b>,&#8217; said God, &#8216;<b><i>and after these things they will come out of therei>b><n id="2" /> and <i>worshipi><n id="3" /> <i>me in this placei>.&#8217;<n id="4" />

serving the Lord with all humility<n id="1" /> and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots<n id="2" /> of the Jews.

We know that<n id="1" /> our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us,<n id="2" /> so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died<n id="1" /> to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.<n id="2" />p>

But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless<n id="1" /> basic forces?<n id="2" /> Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?<n id="3" />

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

<t /><p class="bodytext">For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters;<n id="1" /> only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh,<n id="2" /> but through love serve one another.<n id="3" />

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

but he answered<n id="1" /> his father, &#8216;Look! These many years I have worked like a slave<n id="2" /> for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet<n id="3" /> you never gave me even a goat<n id="4" /> so that I could celebrate with my friends!

Thanks be<n id="1" /> to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then,<n id="2" /> I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but<n id="3" /> with my flesh I serve<n id="4" /> the law of sin.p>