Galatians
4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing
from a servant, though he be lord of all;
4:2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the
father.
4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of
the world:
4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made
of a woman, made under the law,
4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons.
4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into
your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an
heir of God through Christ.
4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by
nature are no gods.
4:9 But 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?
4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
4:12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not
injured me at all.
4:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto
you at the first.
4:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected;
but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
4:15 Where 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.
4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
4:17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you,
that ye might affect them.
4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not
only when I am present with you.
4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be
formed in you,
4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand
in doubt of you.
4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the
other by a freewoman.
4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the
freewoman was by promise.
4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one
from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which
now is, and is in bondage with her children.
4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
4:27 For 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.
4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was
born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
4:30 Nevertheless 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.
4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the
free.
