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Sons and Heirs
Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;
Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;
What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate.
but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father.
The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;
but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship.
But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.
So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
Paul's Concern for the Galatians
But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;
But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;
Paul’s Concern for the Galatians
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?
Ye observe days and months and times and years.
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.
I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.
Be as *I* [am], for *I* also [am] as *ye*, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.
I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. You did me no wrong.
But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;
As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you,
and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
and even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given [them] to me.
Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.
Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may have zeal for them.
But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you --
It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you.
my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:
My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.
how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!
Hagar and Sarah
Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?
Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?
Hagar and Sarah
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman.
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.
His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.
Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.
These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children;
Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
For 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.
But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.
Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.
But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.
At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now.
But 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.