Douay Bible - Galatians Chapter 4

Galatians 4:1
Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

Galatians 4:2
But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father:

Galatians 4:3
So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.

Galatians 4:4
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:

Galatians 4:5
That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God hath sent the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.

Galatians 4:7
Therefore now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also through God.

Galatians 4:8
But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them, who, by nature, are not gods.

Galatians 4:9
But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements, which you desire to serve again?

Galatians 4:10
You observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.

Galatians 4:12
Be ye as I, because I also am as you: brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured me at all.

Galatians 4:13
And you know, how through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh,

Galatians 4:14
You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:15
Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness, that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and would have given them to me.

Galatians 4:16
Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Galatians 4:17
They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them.

Galatians 4:18
But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.

Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.

Galatians 4:20
And I would willingly be present with you now, and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you.

Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?

Galatians 4:22
For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free woman.

Galatians 4:23
But he who was of the bondwoman, was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman, was by promise.

Galatians 4:24
Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from mount Sina, engendering unto bondage; which is Agar:

Galatians 4:25
For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Galatians 4:26
But that Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is our mother.

Galatians 4:27
For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.

Galatians 4:28
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

Galatians 4:29
But as then he, that was born according to the flesh, persecuted him that was after the spirit; so also it is now.

Galatians 4:30
But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.

Galatians 4:31
So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free.