41And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all,+2but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,+3so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,+4and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,+5that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;+6and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'+7so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.+
Paul’s Concern for the Galatians
8But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,+9and now, having known God--and rather being known by God--how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?+10days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!+11I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.+12Become as I am --because I also am as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,+13and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,+14and my trial that is in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me--as Christ Jesus;+15what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;+16so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?+17they are zealous for you-- yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;+18and it is good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;+19my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,+20and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.+
21Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?+22for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,+23but he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise;+24which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;+25for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is, and is in servitude with her children,+26and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,+27for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate--more than of her having the husband.'+28And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,+29but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;+30but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'+31then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.+
Young's Literal Translation
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