Young's Literal Translation

Galatians 3

The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians

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Chapter 4

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  And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,  

 

 

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  but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,  

 

 

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  so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,  

 

 

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  and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,  

 

 

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  that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;  

 

 

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  and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father!'  

 

 

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  so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.  

 

 

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  But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,  

 

 

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  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?  

 

 

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  days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!  

 

 

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  I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.  

 

 

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  Become as I [am] -- because I also [am] as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,  

 

 

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  and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,  

 

 

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  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;  

 

 

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  what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;  

 

 

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  so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?  

 

 

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  they are zealous for you -- [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;  

 

 

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  and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;  

 

 

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  my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,  

 

 

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  and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.  

 

 

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  Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?  

 

 

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  for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,  

 

 

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  but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise;  

 

 

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  which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;  

 

 

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  for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children,  

 

 

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  and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,  

 

 

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  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.'  

 

 

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  And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,  

 

 

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  but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;  

 

 

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  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;'  

 

 

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  then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.  

 

 

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