24  So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith. 25  But, faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor; 26  for ye are all God’s sons by faith in Christ Jesus. 27  For ye, as many as have been baptised unto Christ, have put on Christ. 28  There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus: 29  but if ye are of Christ, then ye are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to promise.

Chapter 4

1  Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all; 2  but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father. 3  So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world; 4  but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law, 5  that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship. 6  But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7  So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.

8  But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods; 9  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?