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Galatians 4

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1 Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he is lord of all;
1 What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate.
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father.
2 The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
3 So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.
4 But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
7 So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
8 However then, when ye knew not God, ye did service to them which by nature are no gods.
8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
9 But 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?
9 But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces ? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
10 You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
11 I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all.
12 I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. You did me no wrong.
13 Ye know that in infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first.
13 As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you,
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.
14 and even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
15 What 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.
15 Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, [but] not well; for, they would exclude you, that ye may affect them.
17 Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may have zeal for them.
18 But [it is] good to be zealously affected always in [a] good [thing], and not only when I am present with you.
18 It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,
19 My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
20 how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free-woman.
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
23 But he [who was] of the bond-woman, was born according to the flesh; but he of the free-woman [was] by promise.
23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.
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.
24 These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
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 who hath a husband.
27 For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
28 Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
29 At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now.
30 Nevertheless, 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.
30 But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.
31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
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