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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Galatians 4 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/galatians/4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/galatians/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/combine/galatians/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</a> > Galatians 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../galatians/3.htm" title="Galatians 3">◄</a> Galatians 4 <a href="../galatians/5.htm" title="Galatians 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Sons and Heirs<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../genesis/21.htm">Genesis 21:1-8</a>; <a href="../romans/8.htm#12">Romans 8:12-17</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>but is under guardians and stewards until the term appointed of the father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world: <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>that he might redeem them which were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.</p> <p class="hdg">Paul's Concern for the Galatians</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them which by nature are no gods: <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known of God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again? <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labour upon you in vain.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I beseech you, brethren, be as I am, for I am as ye are. Ye did me no wrong: <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time: <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So then am I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>yea, I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I am perplexed about you.</p> <p class="hdg">Hagar and Sarah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children of the desolate than of her which hath the husband.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../galatians/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Galatians 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Galatians 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../galatians/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Galatians 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Galatians 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/galatians/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>