1My point is this: heirs, as long as they are minors, are no better than those who are enslaved, though they are the owners of all the property,
2but they remain under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father.
3 of the world.
4 hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
7So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir through God.Paul Reproves the Galatians
8 How can you want to be enslaved to them again?
10You are observing special days and months and seasons and years.
11I am afraid that my work for you may have been wasted.
12Brothers and sisters, I beg you: become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong.
13You know that it was because of a physical infirmity that I first announced the gospel to you;
14though my condition put you to the test, you did not scorn or despise me but welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
15What has become of the goodwill you felt? For I testify that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17They make much of you but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you may make much of them.
18It is good to be made much of for a good purpose at all times and not only when I am present with you.
19 and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
26 my brothers and sisters, are children of the promise, like Isaac.
29Gen 21.9But just as at that time the child who was born according to the flesh persecuted the child who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.
30Gen 21.10–12But what does the scripture say? “Drive out the enslaved woman and her child, for the child of the enslaved woman will not share the inheritance with the child of the free woman.”
31So then, brothers and sisters, we are children, not of an enslaved woman but of the free woman.
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