7. So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Messiah.
8. However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
9. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
10. You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
11. I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labour for you.
12. I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
13. but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
14. That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Messiah Yeshua.
15. What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
16. So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17. They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
18. But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
19. My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Messiah is formed in you—
20. but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
21. Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
23. However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
24. These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.