41Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;+2but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father.+3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;+4but when the fulness of the time was come,God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,+5that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship.+6But because ye are sons,God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.+7So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also throughGod.+
Paul’s Concern for the Galatians
8But then indeed, not knowingGod, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are notgods;+9but now, knowingGod, but rather being known byGod, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?+10Ye observe days and months and times and years.+11I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.+12Be as I [am], for I also [am] as ye, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.+13But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;+14and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel ofGod, as Christ Jesus.+15What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given [them] to me.+16So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?+17They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.+18But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you —+19my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:+20and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.+
21Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?+22For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman.+23But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.+24Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.+25For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children;+26but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.+27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her that has a husband.+28But ye, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.+29But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.+30But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.+31So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but [children] of the free woman.+
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