Galatians 4 (NET)

Galatians 4:1¹Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:2²But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:3³So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:4⁴But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:5⁵to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:6⁶And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Father!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:7⁷So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:8⁸Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:9⁹But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:10¹⁰You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:11¹¹I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:12¹²I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:13¹³But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:14¹⁴and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:15¹⁵Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:16¹⁶So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:17¹⁷They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:18¹⁸However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:19¹⁹My children—I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:20²⁰I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:21²¹Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:22²²For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:23²³But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:24²⁴These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:25²⁵Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:26²⁶But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:27²⁷For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:28²⁸But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:29²⁹But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:30³⁰But what does the scripture say? “Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son ” of the free woman.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Galatians 4:31³¹Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions