{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/galatians/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:58:34.745Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Galatians","bookSlug":"galatians","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":6,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father: "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Therefore now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also through God. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them, who, by nature, are not gods. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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? "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"You observe days, and months, and times, and years. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Be ye as I, because I also am as you: brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured me at all. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And you know, how through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh, "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And I would willingly be present with you now, and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law? "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free woman. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"But he who was of the bondwoman, was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman, was by promise. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from mount Sina, engendering unto bondage; which is Agar: "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"But that Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is our mother. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"But as then he, that was born according to the flesh, persecuted him that was after the spirit; so also it is now. "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Galatians 4 (DRB)","markdown":"[Galatians 4](https://primebible.com/drb/galatians/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/galatians/4 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}