a[1 John 5:20]
bHos. 2:20; 6:3; 2 Pet. 1:2, 3
cch. 5:44
d1 Thess. 1:9; 1 John 5:20; [Jer. 10:10]
eSee ch. 3:17
f1 Cor. 1:21; 1 Thess. 4:5; 2 Thess. 1:8; 1 John 4:8
g[Eph. 2:11, 12; 1 Thess. 1:9]
h2 Chr. 13:9; Isa. 37:19; Jer. 2:11; 5:7; 16:20; [1 Cor. 8:4]
iSee 1 Cor. 8:3
j[ch. 3:3]
kRom. 8:3; Heb. 7:18

John 17:3

3 aAnd this is eternal life, bthat they know you, cthe only dtrue God, and eJesus Christ whom you have sent.

Galatians 4:8-9

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

8Formerly, when you fdid not know God, you gwere enslaved to those that by nature hare not gods. 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather ito be known by God, jhow can you turn back again to kthe weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
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