1 Now I say, for as long a time
2 but he is under guardians and managers until the time set by
3 So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world.
4 But when the fullness of time came, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 in order that he might redeem those under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption.
6 And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba!
7 so that you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir through God.
8 But at that time
9 But now,
10 You carefully observe days and months and seasons and years.
11 I am afraid
12 I ask you, brothers, become like me, because I also
13 But you know that because of an illness of the flesh I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time.
14 And you did not despise or disdain
15 So where
16 So then, have I become your enemy
17 They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they want to exclude you, in order that you may seek them
18 But
19 My children, for whom I am having birth pains again, until Christ is formed in you!
20 But I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone because I am perplexed about you.
21 Tell me,
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the female slave and one by the free woman.
23 But the one by the female slave was born according to human descent, and the one by the free woman through the promise,
24 which
25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is a slave with her children.
26 But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.
27 For it is written,
28 But you, brothers, are children of the promise, just as Isaac.
29 But just as at that time the
30 But what does the scripture say? “Drive out the female slave and her son, for the son of the female slave will never inherit with the son”
31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female slave but of the free woman.