Galatians 4

¹And I say, as long as the heir is a little one, he differeth nothing from a servant, although he be lord of all,

²But is under tutors and governors until the time limited of the father:

³so we also, when we were little ones, were serving under the elements of the world.

⁴But when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son made of a woman, made under the Law:

⁵that he might redeem them that were under the Law; that we might receive the adoption of sons.

⁶And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his son into your hearts crying: Abba, Father.

⁷Therefore now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also by God.

⁸But then indeed not knowing God, you served them that by nature are not Gods.

⁹But now when you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak & poor elements, which you will serve again?

¹⁰You observe days, and months, and times, and years.

¹¹I fear you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.

¹²Be ye as I, because I also am as you: Brethren, I beseech you, you have hurt me nothing.

¹³And you know that by infirmity of the flesh I evangelized to you heretofore:

¹⁴and your tentation in my flesh you despised not, neither rejected, but as and Angel of God you received me, as Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Where is then your blessedness? for I give you testimony that if it could be done, you would have plucked out your eyes and have given them to me.

¹⁶Am I then become your enemy, telling you the truth?

¹⁷They emulate you not well: but they would exclude you, that you might emulate them.

¹⁸But do you emulate the good in good always: and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁹My little children, whom I travail withal again, until Christ be formed in you.

²⁰And I would be with you now and change my voice: because I am confounded in you.

²¹Tell me, you that will be under the law, have you not read the Law?

²²For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one of the bond-woman, and one of the free-woman.

²³But he that of the bond-woman, was born according to the flesh: and he that of the free-woman, by the promise.

²⁴Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from mount Sina, gendering unto bondage; which is Agar,

²⁵(for Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that which now is Jerusalem) and serveth with her children.

²⁶But that Jerusalem which is above, is free; which is our mother.

²⁷For it is written: Rejoice thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry, that travailest not: because many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.

²⁸But we brethren, according to Isaac, are the children of promise.

²⁹But as then he that was born according to the flesh, persecuted him that was after the spirit; so now also.

³⁰But 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.

³¹Therefore, brethren, we are not the children of the bond-woman, but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ hath made us free.