The Book of Galatians 4 |
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
Galatians 4:1 | And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant being lord of all, |
Galatians 4:2 | but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father, |
Galatians 4:3 | so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude, |
Galatians 4:4 | and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law, |
Galatians 4:5 | that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive; |
Galatians 4:6 | and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!` |
Galatians 4:7 | so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ. |
Galatians 4:8 | But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods, |
Galatians 4:9 | and now, having known God and rather being known by God how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude? |
Galatians 4:10 | days ye observe, and months, and times, and years! |
Galatians 4:11 | I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you. |
Galatians 4:12 | Become as I [am] because I also [am] as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt, |
Galatians 4:13 | and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first, |
Galatians 4:14 | and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me as Christ Jesus; |
Galatians 4:15 | what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me; |
Galatians 4:16 | so that your enemy have I become, being true to you? |
Galatians 4:17 | they are zealous for you [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous; |
Galatians 4:18 | and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you; |
Galatians 4:19 | my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you, |
Galatians 4:20 | and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you. |
Galatians 4:21 | Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear? |
Galatians 4:22 | for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman, |
Galatians 4:23 | but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise; |
Galatians 4:24 | which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar; |
Galatians 4:25 | for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children, |
Galatians 4:26 | and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all, |
Galatians 4:27 | for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many [are] the children of the desolate more than of her having the husband.` |
Galatians 4:28 | And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise, |
Galatians 4:29 | but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now; |
Galatians 4:30 | but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;` |
Galatians 4:31 | then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant`s children, but the free-woman`s. |