1 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,
2 but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, awere in bondage under the elements of the world.
4 But awhen the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, bborn cof a woman, dborn under the law,
5 ato redeem those who were under the law, bthat we might receive the adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth athe Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out,1 “Abba, Father!”
7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, aand if a son, then an heir of God2 through Christ.
Fears for the Church
8 But then, indeed, awhen you did not know God, byou served those which by nature are not gods.
9 But now aafter you have known God, or rather are known by God, bhow is it that you turn again to cthe weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in Barnes' Notes for Galatians 4:3.
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