Galatians 4
1But I say that, during the time an heir is a child, he is no different from a servant, even though he is the owner of everything.
2For he is under tutors and caretakers, until the time which was predetermined by the father.
3So also we, when we were children, were subservient to the influences of the world.
4But when the fullness of time arrived, God sent his Son, formed from a woman, formed under the law,
5so that he might redeem those who were under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6Therefore, because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying out: “Abba, Father.”
7And so now he is not a servant, but a son. But if he is a son, then he is also an heir, through God.
8But then, certainly, while ignorant of God, you served those who, by nature, are not gods.
9But now, since you have known God, or rather, since you have been known by God: how can you turn away again, to weak and destitute influences, which you desire to serve anew?
10You serve the days, and months, and times, and years.
11I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you.
12Brothers, I beg you. Be as I am. For I, too, am like you. You have not injured me at all.
13But you know that, in the weakness of the flesh, I have preached the Gospel to you for a long time, and that your trials are in my flesh.
14You did not despise or reject me. But instead, you accepted me like an Angel of God, even like Christ Jesus.
15Therefore, where is your happiness? For I offer to you testimony that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would have given them to me.
16So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17They are not imitating you well. And they are willing to exclude you, so that you might imitate them.
18But be imitators of what is good, always in a good way, and not only when I am present with you.
19My little sons, I am giving birth to you again, until Christ is formed in you.
20And I would willingly be present with you, even now. But I would alter my voice: for I am ashamed of you.
21Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?
22For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one by a servant woman, and one by a free woman.
23And he who was of the servant was born according to the flesh. But he who was of the free woman was born by the promise.
24These things are said through an allegory. For these represent the two testaments. Certainly the one, on Mount Sinai, gives birth unto servitude, which is Hagar.
25For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, which is related to the Jerusalem of the present time, and it serves with her sons.
26But that Jerusalem which is above is free; the same is our mother.
27For it was written: “Rejoice, O barren one, though you do not conceive. Burst forth and cry out, though you do not give birth. For many are the children of the desolate, even more than of her who has a husband.”
28Now we, brothers, like Isaac, are sons of the promise.
29But just as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
30And what does Scripture say? “Cast out the woman servant and her son. For the son of a servant women shall not be an heir with the son of a free woman.”
31And so, brothers, we are not the sons of the servant woman, but rather of the free woman. And this is the freedom with which Christ has set us free.
1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
10Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30Nevertheless 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 freewoman.
31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.