Galatians 4 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Sonship in Christ

Gal 4:1I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a slave, though he is the owner of all the estate;

Gal 4:2

Gal 4:2but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father.

Gal 4:3

Gal 4:3So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe.

Gal 4:4

Gal 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

Gal 4:5

Gal 4:5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Gal 4:6

Gal 4:6And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

Gal 4:7

Gal 4:7So through God you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then an heir.

Gal 4:8

Gal 4:8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings that by nature are no gods;

Gal 4:9

Gal 4:9but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits, whose slaves you want to be once more?

Gal 4:10

Gal 4:10You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years!

Gal 4:11

Gal 4:11I am afraid I have labored over you in vain.

Gal 4:12

Gal 4:12Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong;

Gal 4:13

Gal 4:13you know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first;

Gal 4:14

Gal 4:14and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

Gal 4:15

Gal 4:15What has become of the satisfaction you felt? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

Gal 4:16

Gal 4:16Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Gal 4:17

Gal 4:17They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.

Gal 4:18

Gal 4:18For a good purpose it is always good to be made much of, and not only when I am present with you.

Gal 4:19

Gal 4:19My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you!

Gal 4:20

Gal 4:20I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Bond and Free

(Gen 21:8–21; Isa 54:1 )

Gal 4:21

Gal 4:21Tell me, you who desire to be under law, do you not hear the law?

Gal 4:22

Gal 4:22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman.

Gal 4:23

Gal 4:23But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of the free woman through promise.

Gal 4:24

Gal 4:24Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.

Gal 4:25

Gal 4:25Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

Gal 4:26

Gal 4:26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Gal 4:27

Gal 4:27For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not in travail; for the children of the desolate one are many more than the children of her that is married."

Gal 4:28

Gal 4:28Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Gal 4:29

Gal 4:29But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Gal 4:30

Gal 4:30But what does the scripture say? "Cast out the slave and her son; for the son of the slave shall not inherit with the son of the free woman."

Gal 4:31

Gal 4:31So, brethren, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.

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Sonship in Christ

Bond and Free

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