MKJV - Galatians - 4

4:1  But I say, Over so long a time the heir is an infant, he does not differ from a slave, though being lord of all;

4:2  but he is under guardians and housemasters until the term appointed before by the father.

4:3  Even so we, when we were infants, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

4:4  But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, coming into being out of a woman, having come under Law,

4:5  that He might redeem those under Law, so that we might receive the adoption of sons.

4:6  And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

4:7  So that you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

4:8  But then, indeed, not knowing God, you served as slaves to those not by nature being gods.

4:9  But now, knowing God, but rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you desire to slave anew?

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

4:11  I fear for you, lest somehow I have labored among you in vain.

4:12  Brothers, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you. You have not injured me at all.

4:13  But you know that through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you before,

4:14  and you did not despise my temptation in my flesh, nor did you spurn it. But you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

4:15  What then was your blessedness? For I bear you record that, if you were able, plucking out your eyes, you would have given them to me.

4:16  So then did I become your enemy speaking to you the truth?

4:17  They are zealous for you, but not well. But they only desire to shut you out, that you be zealous to them.

4:18  But it is good to be zealous always in a good thing, and not only in my being present with you.

4:19  My children, for whom I again travail until Christ should be formed in you,

4:20  even now I desired to be present with you, and to change my voice; for I am in doubt as to you.

4:21  Tell me, those desiring to be under Law, do you not hear the Law?

4:22  For it is written: Abraham had two sons, the one out of the slave-woman, and one out of the free woman.

4:23  But, indeed, he out of the slave-woman has been born according to flesh, and he out of the free woman through the promise;

4:24  which things are being allegorized; for these are the two covenants, one indeed from Mount Sinai bringing forth to slavery, which is Hagar.

4:25  For Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in slavery with her children.

4:26  But the Jerusalem from above is free, who is the mother of us all.

4:27  For it is written, "Rejoice, barren one not bearing; break forth and shout, you not travailing; for more are the children of the desolate than she having the husband."

4:28  But brothers, we, like Isaac, are children of promise.

4:29  But then even as he born according to flesh persecuted him born according to the Spirit, so also now.

4:30  But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the slave-woman and her son; for in no way shall the son of the slave-woman inherit with the son of the free woman."

4:31  Then, brothers, we are not children of a slave-woman, but of the free woman.