Galatians 4

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

²But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father:

³So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.

⁴But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:

⁵That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons.

⁶And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.

⁷Therefore now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also through God.

⁸But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them, who, by nature, are not gods.

⁹But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements, which you desire to serve again?

¹⁰You observe days, and months, and times, and years.

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.

¹²Be ye as I, because I also am as you: brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured me at all.

¹³And you know, how through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh,

¹⁴You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.