English Bible
Galatians 4
Big screen- 1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
- 2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
- 3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
- 4But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
- 5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
- 6And because all of you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
- 7Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
- 8Nevertheless then, when all of you knew not God, all of you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
- 9But now, after that all of you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn all of you again to the weak and beggarly elements, unto which all of you desire again to be in bondage?
- 10All of you observe days, and months, and times, and years.
- 11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
- 12Brethren, I plead to you, be as I am; for I am as all of you are: all of you have not injured me at all.
- 13All of you know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
- 14And my temptation which was in my flesh all of you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
- 15Where is then the blessedness all of you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, all of you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
- 16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
- 17They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that all of you might affect them.
- 18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
- 19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
- 20I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
- 21Tell me, all of you that desire to be under the law, do all of you not hear the law?
- 22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
- 23But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
- 24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which genders to bondage, which is Agar.
- 25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
- 26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
- 27For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has an husband.
- 28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
- 29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
- 30Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
- 31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.