Galatians 4

¹Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

²but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father.

³So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;

⁴but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,

⁵that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship.

⁶But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

⁷So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.

⁸But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;

⁹but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

¹⁰Ye observe days and months and times and years.

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

¹²Be as I [am], for I also [am] as ye, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

¹³But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

¹⁴and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.