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Galatians 4

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1 I'm saying that as long as the heirs are minors, they are no different from slaves, though they really are the owners of everything.

2 However, they are placed under trustees and guardians until the date set by the parents.

3 In the same way, when we were minors, we were also enslaved by this world's system.

4 But when the fulfillment of the time came, God sent his Son, born through a woman, and born under the Law.

5 This was so he could redeem those under the Law so that we could be adopted.

6 Because you are sons and daughters, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"

7 Therefore, you are no longer a slave but a son or daughter, and if you are his child, then you are also an heir through God.

8 At the time, when you didn't know God, you were enslaved by things that aren't gods by nature.

9 But now, after knowing God (or rather, being known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless world system? Do you want to be slaves to it again?

10 You observe religious days and months and seasons and years.

11 I'm afraid for you! Perhaps my hard work for you has been for nothing.

12 I beg you to be like me, brothers and sisters, because I have become like you! You haven't wronged me.

13 You know that I first preached the gospel to you because of an illness.

14 Though my poor health burdened you, you didn't look down on me or reject me, but you welcomed me as if I were an angel from God, or as if I were Christ Jesus!

15 Where then is the great attitude that you had? I swear that, if possible, you would have dug out your eyes and given them to me.

16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

17 They are so concerned about you, though not with good intentions. Rather, they want to shut you out so that you would run after them.

18 However, it's always good to have people concerned about you with good intentions, and not just when I'm there with you.

19 My little children, I'm going through labor pains again until Christ is formed in you.

20 But I wish I could be with you now and change how I sound, because I'm at a loss about you.

21 Tell me—those of you who want to be under the Law—don't you listen to the Law?

22 It's written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.

23 The son by the slave woman was conceived the normal way, but the son by the free woman was conceived through a promise.

24 These things are an allegory: the women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, which gives birth to slave children; this is Hagar.

25 Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and she corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because the city is in slavery with her children.

26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

27 It's written: Rejoice, barren woman, you who have not given birth. Break out with a shout, you who have not suffered labor pains; because the woman who has been deserted will have many more children than the woman who has a husband.

28 Brothers and sisters, you are children of the promise like Isaac.

29 But just as it was then, so it is now also: the one who was conceived the normal way harassed the one who was conceived by the Spirit.

30 But what does the scripture say? Throw out the slave woman and her son, because the slave woman's son won't share the inheritance with the free woman's son.

31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we aren't the slave woman's children, but we are the free woman's children.

English Standard Version ESV

1 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,

2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father! ”

7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.

9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

10 You observe days and months and seasons and years!

11 I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.

12 Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong.

13 You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,

14 and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

15 What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.

16 Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

17 They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.

18 It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you,

19 my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

20 I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?

22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.

23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.

25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

27 For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband. ”

28 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

30 But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman. ”

31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.