Galatians 4

¹Then I say, that the heire as long as hee is a childe, differeth nothing from a seruant, though he be Lord of all,

²But is vnder tutours and gouernours, vntil the time appointed of the Father.

³Euen so, we when wee were children, were in bondage vnder the rudiments of the world.

⁴But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe,

⁵That hee might redeeme them which were vnder the Law, that we might receiue the adoption of the sonnes.

⁶And because ye are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the Spirit of his Sonne into your heartes, which crieth, Abba, Father.

⁷Wherefore, thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne: now if thou be a sone, thou art also the heire of God through Christ.

⁸But euen then, when ye knewe not God, yee did seruice vnto them, which by nature are not gods:

⁹But now seeing ye knowe God, yea, rather are knowen of God, howe turne ye againe vnto impotent and beggerly rudiments, whereunto as from the beginning ye wil be in bondage againe?

¹⁰Ye obserue dayes, and moneths, and times and yeeres.

¹¹I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.

¹²Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.

¹³And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first.