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