Galatians 4:1-9 ▼

1 And I say, that the heyre, as long as he is a chylde, differeth nothyng from a seruaut, though he be Lorde of all,

2 But is vnder tuters and gouernours, vntyll the tyme appoynted of the father.

3 Euen so we, when we were chyldren, were in bondage vnder ye rudimentes of the worlde:

4 But when the fulnesse of the tyme was come, God sent his sonne, made of a woman, and made vnder the lawe,

5 To redeeme them that were vnder the lawe, that we myght receaue the adoption of chyldren.

6 Because ye are sonnes, God hath sent the spirite of his sonne into your heartes, crying, Abba, father.

7 Wherfore thou art no more a seruaunt, but a sonne: If thou be a sonne, thou art also an heire of God, through Christ.

8 Notwithstandyng, when ye knewe not God, ye dyd seruice vnto the which by nature are no Gods.

9 But nowe after that ye haue knowen God, yea, rather are knowen of God, howe turne ye agayne vnto the weake and beggarly rudimentes, whervnto againe ye desire a freshe to be in bondage?