4Galatians 4

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

2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by 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, born of a woman, born 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 ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.Select Galatians 4:6

7Wherefore thou art 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 ye knew not God, ye did service to them which by nature are no gods.Select Galatians 4:8

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

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

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

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

13Ye know that in 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 ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.Select Galatians 4:14

15What then was the blessedness ye spoke of; for I bear you testimony, that, if [it had been] possible, ye 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; for, they would exclude you, that ye may 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, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?Select Galatians 4:21

22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free-woman.Select Galatians 4:22

23But he [who was] of the bond-woman, was born according to 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 gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.Select Galatians 4:24

25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth 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, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she who hath a husband.Select Galatians 4:27

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

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

30Nevertheless, what saith the scripture? Cast out the bond-woman and her son: for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman.Select Galatians 4:30

31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.Select Galatians 4:31