4Galatians 4

1And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all,Select Galatians 4:1

2but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,Select Galatians 4:2

3so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,Select Galatians 4:3

4and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,Select Galatians 4:4

5that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;Select Galatians 4:5

6and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'Select Galatians 4:6

7so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.Select Galatians 4:7

8But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,Select Galatians 4:8

9and now, having known God--and rather being known by God--how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?Select Galatians 4:9

10days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!Select Galatians 4:10

11I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.Select Galatians 4:11

12Become as I am --because I also am as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,Select Galatians 4:12

13and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,Select Galatians 4:13

14and my trial that is in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me--as Christ Jesus;Select Galatians 4:14

15what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;Select Galatians 4:15

16so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?Select Galatians 4:16

17they are zealous for you-- yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;Select Galatians 4:17

18and it is good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;Select Galatians 4:18

19my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,Select Galatians 4:19

20and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.Select Galatians 4:20

21Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?Select Galatians 4:21

22for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,Select Galatians 4:22

23but he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise;Select Galatians 4:23

24which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;Select Galatians 4:24

25for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is , and is in servitude with her children,Select Galatians 4:25

26and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,Select Galatians 4:26

27for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate--more than of her having the husband.'Select Galatians 4:27

28And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,Select Galatians 4:28

29but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;Select Galatians 4:29

30but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'Select Galatians 4:30

31then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.Select Galatians 4:31