Galatians 4 — WBMS
4Verse 1But I say, as long time as the heir is a little child, he diverseth nothing from a servant, when he is lord of all things [or lord of all];Verse 2but he is under keepers and tutors, into the time determined of the father.Verse 3So we, when we were little children, we served under the elements of the world.Verse 4But after that the fulfilling of time came, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,Verse 5that he should again-buy them that were under the law, that we should receive the adoption of sons.Verse 6And for ye be God’s sons, God sent his Spirit into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. [Forsooth for ye be the sons of God, God sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, that is, father.]Verse 7And so there is not now a servant, but a son; and if he is a son, he is an heir by God.Verse 8But then ye unknowing God, served to them that in kind were not gods.Verse 9But now when ye have known God, and be known of God, how be ye turned again to the feeble [or the sick] and needy elements, to the which ye will again serve?Verse 10Ye take keep to days, [or Ye keep, or wait on, days], and months, and times, and years.Verse 11But I dread you, lest without cause, I have travailed among you, [or lest peradventure I have travailed in you without cause].Verse 12Be ye as I, for I am as ye. Brethren, I beseech you, ye have hurt me nothing [or ye have nothing hurt me].Verse 13But ye know, that by infirmity of flesh I have preached [or I have evangelized] to you now before;Verse 14and ye despised not, neither forsook your temptation in my flesh, but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.Verse 15Where then is your blessing? [or Where is therefore your blessedness, that ye had before time?] For I bear you witness, that if it might have been done, ye would have put out your eyes, and have given them to me.Verse 16Am I then made an enemy to you, saying to you the sooth?Verse 17They love not you well [or They love you not well], but they will exclude you, that ye pursue them.Verse 18But pursue ye the good evermore in good, and not only when I am present with you.Verse 19My small children, which I bear again, till that Christ be formed in you, [My little sons, whom I child, or I bring forth by travail, again, till Christ be formed in you,]Verse 20and I would now be at you, and change my voice, for I am confounded among you.Verse 21Say to me, ye that will be under the law, have ye not read the law?Verse 22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one of a servant [or a handmaiden], and one of a free woman [or a wife].Verse 23But he that was of the servant [or the handmaiden] was born after the flesh; but he that was of the free woman [or the wife] by a promise.Verse 24The which things be said by another understanding [or allegory]. For these be two testaments; one in the hill of Sinai [or mount Sinai], engendering into servage, which is Agar.Verse 25For Sinai is an hill that is in Arabia, which hill is joined to it that is now Jerusalem, and serveth with her children.Verse 26But that Jerusalem that is above, is free, which is our mother.Verse 27For it is written, Be glad, thou barren, that bearest not; break out and cry, [thou] that bringest forth no children; for many sons be of her that is left of her husband, more than of her that hath an husband.Verse 28For, brethren, we be [the] sons of promise after Isaac;Verse 29but now as this that was born after the flesh pursued him that was after the Spirit, so now.Verse 30But what saith the scripture? Cast out the servant [or the handmaiden] and her son, for the son of the servant shall not be heir with the son of the free wife.Verse 31And so, brethren, we be not sons of the servant [or of the handmaiden], but of the free wife, by which freedom [or liberty] Christ hath made us free.