The Latin Vulgate VUL
New King James Version NKJV
1 dico autem quanto tempore heres parvulus est nihil differt servo cum sit dominus omnium
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Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,
2 sed sub tutoribus est et actoribus usque ad praefinitum tempus a patre
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but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.
3 ita et nos cum essemus parvuli sub elementis mundi eramus servientes
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Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
4 at ubi venit plenitudo temporis misit Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere factum sub lege
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But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 ut eos qui sub lege erant redimeret ut adoptionem filiorum reciperemus
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to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6 quoniam autem estis filii misit Deus Spiritum Filii sui in corda nostra clamantem Abba Pater
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And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"
7 itaque iam non es servus sed filius quod si filius et heres per Deum
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Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 sed tunc quidem ignorantes Deum his qui natura non sunt dii serviebatis
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But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.
9 nunc autem cum cognoveritis Deum immo cogniti sitis a Deo quomodo convertimini iterum ad infirma et egena elementa quibus denuo servire vultis
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But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
10 dies observatis et menses et tempora et annos
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You observe days and months and seasons and years.
11 timeo vos ne forte sine causa laboraverim in vobis
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I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
12 estote sicut et ego quia et ego sicut vos fratres obsecro vos nihil me laesistis
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Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. You have not injured me at all.
13 scitis autem quia per infirmitatem carnis evangelizavi vobis iam pridem
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You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.
14 et temptationem vestram in carne mea non sprevistis neque respuistis sed sicut angelum Dei excepistis me sicut Christum Iesum
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And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 ubi est ergo beatitudo vestra testimonium enim perhibeo vobis quia si fieri posset oculos vestros eruissetis et dedissetis mihi
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What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.
16 ergo inimicus vobis factus sum verum dicens vobis
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Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
17 aemulantur vos non bene sed excludere vos volunt ut illos aemulemini
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They zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them.
18 bonum autem aemulamini in bono semper et non tantum cum praesens sum apud vos
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But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you.
19 filioli mei quos iterum parturio donec formetur Christus in vobis
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My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
20 vellem autem esse apud vos modo et mutare vocem meam quoniam confundor in vobis
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I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.
21 dicite mihi qui sub lege vultis esse legem non legistis
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Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 scriptum est enim quoniam Abraham duos filios habuit unum de ancilla et unum de libera
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman.
23 sed qui de ancilla secundum carnem natus est qui autem de libera per repromissionem
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But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise,
24 quae sunt per allegoriam dicta haec enim sunt duo testamenta unum quidem a monte Sina in servitutem generans quae est Agar
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which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar--
25 Sina enim mons est in Arabia qui coniunctus est ei quae nunc est Hierusalem et servit cum filiis eius
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for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children--
26 illa autem quae sursum est Hierusalem libera est quae est mater nostra
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but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 scriptum est enim laetare sterilis quae non paris erumpe et exclama quae non parturis quia multi filii desertae magis quam eius quae habet virum
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For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren, You who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband."
28 nos autem fratres secundum Isaac promissionis filii sumus
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Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29 sed quomodo tunc qui secundum carnem natus fuerat persequebatur eum qui secundum spiritum ita et nunc
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But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 sed quid dicit scriptura eice ancillam et filium eius non enim heres erit filius ancillae cum filio liberae
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Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman."
31 itaque fratres non sumus ancillae filii sed liberae qua libertate nos Christus liberavit
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So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
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