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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 managers until the date set by his father.
The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir 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
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that 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 that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
You observe days and months and seasons and years!
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.
I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. You did me no wrong.
You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,
As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you,
and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but 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 has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and 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.
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of 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.
It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, 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 little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!
Example of Hagar and Sarah
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you 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 by a slave woman and one by a free woman.
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through 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.
Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she 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.
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, and she is our mother.
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
For it is written,
“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”
“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”
Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.
But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the 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 does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.”