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4:1  Now I say— for as much time as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave. Being the [future] owner of all,
4:2  nevertheless he is under guardians and stewards until the pre-appointed day of the father.
4:3  In this manner also we, when we were children, were enslaved under the elemental things of the world.
4:4  But when the fullness of time came, God sent-forth His Son— having come from a woman, having come under the Law
4:5  in order that He might redeem the ones under the Law, in order that we [all] might receive the adoption.
4:6  And because you are sons, God sent-forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts crying-out, “Abba! Father!”
4:7  So then you are no longer a slave, but a son— and if a son, also an heir through God!
4:8  But at that time not knowing God, you were-slaves to the ones by nature not being gods.
4:9  But now having known God, yet rather having been known by God, how is it you are turning-back again to the weak and poor elemental things to which again you are wanting to be-slaves anew?
4:10  You are observing days and months and seasons and years.
4:11  I am fearing for you, that I somehow have labored in-vain for you.
4:12  I beg you, brothers, become as I, because I also became as you. You did me no wrong.
4:13  And you know that I first announced-the-good-news to you because of a weakness of the flesh.
4:14  And you did not treat-with-contempt nor loathe your trial in-connection-with my flesh, but you welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
4:15  Where then is your blessedness? For I testify concerning you that, if possible, you would have given your eyes to me, having torn them out!
4:16  So then, have I become your enemy while speaking-the-truth to you?
4:17  They are zealously-seeking you— not commendably, but they want to shut you out in-order-that you might be zealously-seeking them.
4:18  Now it is good to be zealously-sought in a commendable thing at-all-times, and not only during my being present with you—
4:19  my children, as to whom again I am suffering-birth-pains until which time Christ is formed in you.
4:20  But I was [just now] wishing to be present with you now and to change my tone, because I am perplexed with you.
4:21  Tell me, the ones wanting to be under the Law, do you not hear the Law?
4:22  For it has been written that Abraham had two sons— one by the slave-woman and one by the free woman.
4:23  But the one by the slave-woman has been born according to the flesh, and the one by the free woman through the promise—
4:24  which things are being allegorized, for these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery, which is Hagar
4:25  (now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia). And she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is a slave with her children.
4:26  But the Jerusalem above is free— which is our mother.
4:27  For it has been written, “Celebrate, barren one, the one not giving-birth. Break-forth and shout, the one not suffering-birth-pains. Because many more are the children of the desolate than of the one having the husband!”[Isa 54:1]
4:28  And you, brothers, are children of the promise in accordance with Isaac.
4:29  But just as at-that-time the one having been born according to the flesh was persecuting the one born according to the Spirit, so also now.
4:30  But what does the Scripture say? “Send-out the slave-woman and her son. For the son of the slave-woman shall by no means inherit with the son of the free woman” [Gen 21:10].
4:31  Therefore, brothers, we are not children of a slave-woman, but of the free woman.