{"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/ylt/galatians/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T11:06:19.044Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Galatians","bookSlug":"galatians","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":6,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant — being lord of all,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father!'"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"and now, having known God — and rather being known by God — how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Become as I am — because I also am as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"and my trial that is in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me — as Christ Jesus;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"they are zealous for you — yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"and it is good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"but he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise;"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is, and is in servitude with her children,"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"for it hath been written, 'Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate — more than of her having the husband.'"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"but what saith the Writing? 'Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's."}],"citation":{"inline":"Galatians 4 (YLT)","markdown":"[Galatians 4](https://primebible.com/ylt/galatians/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/galatians/4 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}