1. Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2. But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father:
3. So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.
4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:
5. That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6. And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.
7. Therefore now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also through God.
8. But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them, who, by nature, are not gods.
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?
10. You observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11. I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.
12. Be ye as I, because I also am as you: brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured me at all.
13. And you know, how through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh,
14. You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.