Darby - Galatians - 4

4:1  Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

4:2  but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father.

4:3  So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;

4:4  but when the fulness of the time was come,God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,

4:5  that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship.

4:6  But because ye are sons,God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

4:7  So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also throughGod.

4:8  But then indeed, not knowingGod, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are notgods;

4:9  but now, knowingGod, but rather being known byGod, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

4:10  Ye observe days and months and times and years.

4:11  I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

4:12  Be as I [am], for I also [am] as ye, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

4:13  But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

4:14  and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel ofGod, as Christ Jesus.

4:15  What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given [them] to me.

4:16  So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

4:17  They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.

4:18  But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you —

4:19  my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:

4:20  and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.

4:21  Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?

4:22  For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman.

4:23  But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.

4:24  Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.

4:25  For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children;

4:26  but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

4:27  For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her that has a husband.

4:28  But ye, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.

4:29  But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.

4:30  But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.

4:31  So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but [children] of the free woman.