en_wbms - Gal 4 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ But 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];

² but he is under keepers and tutors, into the time determined of the father.

³ So we, when we were little children, we served under the elements of the world.

⁴ But after that the fulfilling of time came, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

⁵ that he should again-buy them that were under the law, that we should receive the adoption of sons.

⁶ And 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.]

⁷ And so there is not now a servant, but a son; and if he is a son, he is an heir by God.

⁸ But then ye unknowing God, served to them that in kind were not gods.

⁹ But 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?

¹⁰ Ye take keep to days, [or Ye keep, or wait on, days], and months, and times, and years.

¹¹ But I dread you, lest without cause, I have travailed among you, [or lest peradventure I have travailed in you without cause].

¹² Be ye as I, for I am as ye. Brethren, I beseech you, ye have hurt me nothing [or ye have nothing hurt me].

¹³ But ye know, that by infirmity of flesh I have preached [or I have evangelized] to you now before;

¹⁴ and ye despised not, neither forsook your temptation in my flesh, but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Where 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.

¹⁶ Am I then made an enemy to you, saying to you the sooth?

¹⁷ They love not you well [or They love you not well], but they will exclude you, that ye pursue them.

¹⁸ But pursue ye the good evermore in good, and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁹ My 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,]

²⁰ and I would now be at you, and change my voice, for I am confounded among you.

²¹ Say to me, ye that will be under the law, have ye not read the law?

²² For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one of a servant [or a handmaiden], and one of a free woman [or a wife].

²³ But 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.

²⁴ The 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.

²⁵ For Sinai is an hill that is in Arabia, which hill is joined to it that is now Jerusalem, and serveth with her children.

²⁶ But that Jerusalem that is above, is free, which is our mother.

²⁷ For 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.

²⁸ For, brethren, we be [the] sons of promise after Isaac;

²⁹ but now as this that was born after the flesh pursued him that was after the Spirit, so now.

³⁰ But 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.

³¹ And 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.