Sha'ul�s Letter to the Galatians, Chapter 4
{4:1} But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no
different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; {4:2} but is
under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
{4:3} So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under
the elements of the world. {4:4} But when the fullness of the time
came, God sent forth his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
{4:5} that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of sons. {4:6} And because you are sons, God sent
forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"
{4:7} So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son,
then an heir of God through Messiah. {4:8} However at that time, not
knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are no gods.
{4:9} But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by
God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elements, to
which you desire to be in bondage all over again? {4:10} You observe
days, months, seasons, and years. {4:11} I am afraid for you, that I
might have wasted my labor for you. {4:12} I beg you, brothers, become
as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
{4:13} but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached
the Good News to you the first time. {4:14} That which was a
temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you
received me as an angel of God, even as Messiah Yeshua.
{4:15} What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that,
if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to
me. {4:16} So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
{4:17} They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to
alienate you, that you may seek them. {4:18} But it is always good to
be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
{4:19} My little children, of whom I am again in travail until
Messiah is formed in you-- {4:20} but I could wish to be present with
you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. {4:21}
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the
law? {4:22} For it is written that Avraham had two sons, one by the
handmaid, and one by the free woman. {4:23} However, the son by the
handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free
woman was born through promise. {4:24} These things contain an
allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai,
bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. {4:25} For this Hagar is
Mount Sinai in `Arav, and answers to the Yerushalayim that exists now,
for she is in bondage with her children. {4:26} But the Yerushalayim
that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. {4:27} For it is
written,
"Rejoice, you barren who don't bear.
Break forth and shout, you that don't travail.
For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a
husband."
{4:28} Now we, brothers, as Yitzchak was, are children of promise.
{4:29} But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted
him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. {4:30}
However what does the scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her
son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the
free woman." {4:31} So then, brothers, we are not children of a
handmaid, but of the free woman.
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