4Galatians 4

1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;Select Galatians 4:1

2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.Select Galatians 4:2

3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:Select Galatians 4:3

4But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,Select Galatians 4:4

5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.Select Galatians 4:5

6And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.Select Galatians 4:6

7Why you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.Select Galatians 4:7

8However, then, when you knew not God, you did service to them which by nature are no gods.Select Galatians 4:8

9But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?Select Galatians 4:9

10You observe days, and months, and times, and years.Select Galatians 4:10

11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed on you labor in vain.Select Galatians 4:11

12Brothers, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have not injured me at all.Select Galatians 4:12

13You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first.Select Galatians 4:13

14And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.Select Galatians 4:14

15Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.Select Galatians 4:15

16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?Select Galatians 4:16

17They zealously affect you, but not well; yes, they would exclude you, that you might affect them.Select Galatians 4:17

18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.Select Galatians 4:18

19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,Select Galatians 4:19

20I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.Select Galatians 4:20

21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?Select Galatians 4:21

22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a female slave, the other by a free woman.Select Galatians 4:22

23But he who was of the female slave was born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise.Select Galatians 4:23

24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which engenders to bondage, which is Agar.Select Galatians 4:24

25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.Select Galatians 4:25

26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.Select Galatians 4:26

27For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bore not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has an husband.Select Galatians 4:27

28Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.Select Galatians 4:28

29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.Select Galatians 4:29

30Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the female slave and her son: for the son of the female slave shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.Select Galatians 4:30

31So then, brothers, we are not children of the female slave, but of the free.Select Galatians 4:31