Galatians 4

4Now I say, That ^athe heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; ²But is under ^btutors and ^cgovernors until the time appointed of the father. ³Even so we, when we were children, ^dwere in bondage under ^ethe ^||elements of the world: ⁴But ^fwhen the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, ^gmade ^hof a woman, ^gmade ⁱunder the law, ^5kTo redeem them that were under the law, that ^lwe might receive the adoption of sons. ⁶And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth ^mthe Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, ⁿAbba, Father. ⁷Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and ^oif a son, then an heir of God through Christ. ⁸Howbeit then, ^pwhen ye knew not God, ^qye did service unto them which ^rby nature are no gods. ⁹But now, after that ye have known God, or rather ^sare known of God, ^thow turn ye ^||again to the ^uweak and beggarly ^||elements, whereunto ye desire again ^dto be in bondage? ¹⁰Ye observe ^wdays, and ^xymonths, and ^ytimes, and ^zyears. ¹¹I am afraid of you, ^alest I have ^bbestowed upon you labour ^cin vain.

¹²Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ^dye have not injured me at all. ¹³Ye know how ^ethrough infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you ^fat the first. ¹⁴And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me ^gas an angel of God, even ^has Christ Jesus. ^15||Where is then the ⁱblessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, ^jif it had been possible, ye would have ^kplucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. ¹⁶Am I therefore become your enemy, ^lbecause I tell you the truth? ¹⁷They ^mzealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude ^||you, that ye might ^maffect them. ¹⁸But it is good ^mto be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. ¹⁹ⁿMy little children, of whom I travail in birth again until ^oChrist be ^pformed ^oin you, ^20qI desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for ^||I ^rstand in doubt of you.

²¹Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? ²²For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, ^sthe one by a bondmaid, ^tthe other by a freewoman. ²³But ^uhe who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; ^twbut he of the freewoman was by promise. ²⁴Which things are an allegory: for these are the two ^||covenants; ^xthe one from the mount ^†Sinai, which gendereth ^yto bondage, which is Agar. ²⁵For this Agar is mount Sinai in ^zArabia, and ^||answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and ^yis in bondage with her children. ²⁶But ^aJerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. ²⁷For it is written, ^bRejoice, 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. ²⁸Now we, ^cbrethren, as Isaac was, are ^cthe children of promise. ²⁹But as then ^dhe that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, ^eeven so it is now. ³⁰Nevertheless what saith ^fthe scripture? ^gCast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. ³¹So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, ^hbut of the free.