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4 : 1 What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate.
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4 : 2 He is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.
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4 : 3 So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world.
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4 : 4 But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law,
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4 : 5 to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.
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4 : 6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."
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4 : 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.
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4 : 8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
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4 : 9 But now that you know God--or rather are known by God--how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
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4 : 10 You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
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4 : 11 I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.
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4 : 12 I plead with you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.
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4 : 13 As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
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4 : 14 Even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
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4 : 15 What has happened to all your joy? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
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4 : 16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
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4 : 17 Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
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4 : 18 It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always and not just when I am with you.
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4 : 19 My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
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4 : 20 how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!
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4 : 21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
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4 : 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
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4 : 23 His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.
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4 : 24 These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
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4 : 25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
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4 : 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
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4 : 27 For it is written: "Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband."
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4 : 28 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
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4 : 29 At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now.
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4 : 30 But what does the Scripture say? "Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman`s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman`s son."
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4 : 31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
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