Gal4:1 But I say, as long time as the heir is a little child, he diverseth nothing from a servant, when he is lord of all things [when he is lord of all];
Gal4:2 but he is under keepers and tutors, into the time determined of the father. [ a ]
Gal4:3 So we, when we were little children, we served under the elements of the world. [So and we, when we were little, were serving under the elements of the world.]
Gal4:4 But after that the fulfilling of the time came, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Gal4:5 that he should again-buy them that were under the law, that we should receive the adoption of sons.
Gal4:6 And for ye be God's sons, God sent his Spirit into your hearts [God sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts], crying, Abba, Father.
Gal4:7 And so there is not now a servant, but a son; and if he is a son, he is an heir by God. [Therefore now there is not servant, but son; that if son, then and heir by God.]
Gal4:8 But then ye not knowing God [But then soothly ye unknowing God], served to them that in kind were not gods.
Gal4:9 But now when ye have known God, and be known of God, how be ye turned again to the feeble and needy elements, to the which ye will again serve? [Now forsooth when ye have known God, yea, rather ye be known of God, how be ye turned together again to sick, or frail , and needy elements, to which ye will serve again?]
Gal4:10 Ye take keep to days [Ye keep, or wait (on) , days], and months, and times, and years.
Gal4:11 But I dread you, lest without cause I have travailed among you [lest peradventure I have travailed in you without cause].
Gal4:12 Be ye as I, for I am as ye. Brethren, I beseech you, ye have hurt me nothing [ye have nothing hurt me].
Gal4:13 But ye know, that by infirmity of flesh I have preached to you [I have evangelized to you] now before;
Gal4:14 and ye despised not, neither forsook your temptation in my flesh [and your temptation in my flesh ye despised not, neither forsook], but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
Gal4:15 Where then is your blessing [Where is therefore your blessedness, that ye had before time ]? For I bear you witness, that if it might have been done, ye would have put out your eyes, and have given them to me.
Gal4:16 Am I then made an enemy to you, saying to you the sooth? [Therefore am I made enemy to you, saying true thing to you?]
Gal4:17 They love not you well [They love you not well], but they will exclude you, that ye follow them.
Gal4:18 But follow ye the good evermore in good, and not only when I am present with you.
Gal4:19 My small children, which I bear again, till that Christ be formed in you, [My little sons, whom I child, or bring forth by travail , again, till Christ be formed in you,]
Gal4:20 and I would now be at you, and change my voice, for I am confounded among you [for I am confounded, or shamed , in you].
Gal4:21 Say to me, ye that will be under the law, have ye not read the law?
Gal4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one of a servant, and one of a free woman [one of the handmaiden, and one of the free wife ].
Gal4:23 But he that was of the servant, was born after the flesh; but he that was of the free woman, by a promise. [ b ]
Gal4:24 The which things be said by another understanding. For these be two testaments; one in the hill of Sinai, engendering into servage, which is Agar. [ c ]
Gal4:25 For Sinai is an hill that is in Arabia, which hill is joined to it that is now Jerusalem, and serveth with her children.
Gal4:26 But that Jerusalem that is above, is free, which is our mother.
Gal4:27 For it is written, Be glad, thou barren, that bearest not; break out and cry, that bringest forth no children [break out and cry, thou that childest not]; for many sons be of her that is left of her husband [for many sons be of the deserted, or left woman ], more than of her that hath an husband.
Gal4:28 For, brethren, we be sons of promise after Isaac; [Forsooth, brethren, we be after Isaac the sons of promise;]
Gal4:29 but now as this that was born after the flesh pursued him that was after the Spirit, so now. [ d ]
Gal4:30 But what saith the scripture? Cast out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant shall not be heir with the son of the free wife . [ e ]
Gal4:31 And so, brethren, we be not sons of the servant, but of the free wife , by which freedom Christ hath made us free. [ f ]