GALATIANS CHAPTER IV.

NOW I say, That the heir, as long as he is a 
child, differeth nothing from a servant, though 
he be lord of all; 
2 But is under tutors and governors until the 
time appointed of the father. 
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in 
bondage under the elements of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, 
God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made 
under the law, 
5 To redeem them that were under the law, 
that we might receive the adoption of sons. 
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the 
Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a 
son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. 
8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did 
service unto them which by nature are no gods. 
9 But now, after that ye have known God, or 
rather are known of God, how turn ye again to 
the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye 
desire again to be in bondage?
10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and 
years. 
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon 
you labour in vain. 
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I 
am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. 
13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh 
I preached the gospel unto you at the first. 
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye 
despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an 
angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 
15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of?
for I bear you record, that if it had been possible, ye 
would have plucked out your own eyes, and have 
given them to me. 
16 Am I therefore become your enemy because 
I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, 
they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. 
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a 
good thing, and not only when I am present with you. 
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth 
again, until Christ be formed in you, 
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to 
change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. 
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, 
do ye not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; 
the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free-woman. 
23 But he who was of the bond-woman, was born 
after the flesh; but he of the free-woman was by 
promise. 
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are 
the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, 
which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and 
answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in 
bondage with her children. 
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which 
is the mother of us all. 
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that 
bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest 
not: for the desolate hath many more children than 
she which hath an husband. 
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was , are the children 
of promise. 
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh 
persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even 
so it is now. 
30 Nevertheless, 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. 
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the
bond-woman, but of the free.