48_GAL_04_01 now I say , [ that ] the heir , as long as he Is A child , differeth nothing from A servant , though he be LORD of all ;
48_GAL_04_02 but Is under tutors And governors until the time appointed of the Father .
48_GAL_04_03 even So we , when we were children , were in bondage under the elements of the world :
48_GAL_04_04 but when the fulness of the time was come , God sent forth his son , made of A woman , made under the law ,
48_GAL_04_05 to redeem them that were under the law , that we might receive the adoption of sons .
48_GAL_04_06 And because ye are sons , God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts , crying , Abba , Father .
48_GAL_04_07 Wherefore thou art no more A servant , but A son ; And if A son , Then an heir of God through Christ .
48_GAL_04_08 Howbeit Then , when ye knew not God , ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods .
48_GAL_04_09 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 ?
48_GAL_04_10 ye observe days , And months , And times , And years .
48_GAL_04_11 I am afraid of you , lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain .
48_GAL_04_12 brethren , I beseech you , be as I [ am ] ; for I [ am ] as ye [ are ] : ye have not injured me at all .
48_GAL_04_13 ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first .
48_GAL_04_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 .
48_GAL_04_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 .
48_GAL_04_16 am I therefore become your enemy , because I tell you the truth ?
48_GAL_04_17 they zealously affect you , [ but ] not Well ; yea , they would exclude you , that ye might affect them .
48_GAL_04_18 but [ it Is ] good to be zealously affected always in [ A ] good [ thing ] , And not only when I am present with you .
48_GAL_04_19 my little children , of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you ,
48_GAL_04_20 I desire to be present with you now , And to change my voice ; for I stand in doubt of you .
48_GAL_04_21 tell me , ye that desire to be under the law , do ye not hear the law ?
48_GAL_04_22 for it Is written , that Abraham had two sons , the one by A bondmaid , the other by A freewoman .
48_GAL_04_23 but he [ who was ] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh ; but he of the freewoman [ was ] by promise .
48_GAL_04_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 .
48_GAL_04_25 for this Agar Is mount Sinai in Arabia , And answereth to Jerusalem which now Is , And Is in bondage with her children .
48_GAL_04_26 but Jerusalem which Is above Is free , which Is the mother of us all .
48_GAL_04_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 .
48_GAL_04_28 now we , brethren , as Isaac was , are the children of promise .
48_GAL_04_29 but as Then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [ that was born ] after the spirit , even So [ it Is ] now .
48_GAL_04_30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture ? cast out the bondwoman And her son : for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman .
48_GAL_04_31 So Then , brethren , we are not children of the bondwoman , but of the free .