Galatians 4

¹But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

²But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.

³So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

⁴But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

⁵That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.

⁶And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.

⁷So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

⁸But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

⁹But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

¹⁰You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.

¹¹I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

¹²My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;

¹³But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;