Modern Literal Version
[Galatians 4]


     4:1 But I say inasmuch time as the heir is an infant, he carries nothing of more-value than that of a bondservant, though he is lord of all; 4:2 but is under guardians and stewards until the appointed-day of the father. 4:3 So, when we were infants, we were also enslaved under the fundamental principles of the world. 4:4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born out of a woman, born under the law, 4:5 that* he might buy those up who were under the law, that*we might receive the sonship. 4:6 And because you* are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 4:7 So-that you are no longer a bondservant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.


     4:8 But back then, not knowing God, you* were enslaved to those who by nature are not gods. 4:9But now, having known God or rather being known by God, how are you* turning back again to the weak and poor fundamental principles? Do you* again wish to be enslaved to these anew? 4:10You* observe days and months and seasons and years. 4:11 I fear for you*, lest somehow I have vainly labored toward you*.


     4:12 Brethren, I beseech of you* become like I am, because I have also become like you* are. You* did not wrong me; 4:13 but you* know that I proclaimed the good-news to you* beforehand because of a weakness of the flesh. 4:14 And my test, which was in my flesh; you* did not scorn, nor spurn but you* accepted me as a messenger of God, even as Christ Jesus. 4:15 Then* what isyour good-fortune? For* I testify of you*, that, if possible, you* would have given your* eyes to me, having popped them out. 4:16 So-then have I become your* enemy, telling the truth to you*? 4:17They are zealous for you* in no good way. But they wish to lock you* out from us, that* you* may be zealous for them. 4:18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good thing and not only when I am present with you*. 4:19 My little children, of whom I am in travail again until whenever Christ has been formed in you*. 4:20 But I wishing to be present with you* now and to change my voice, because I am perplexed by you*.


     4:21 Tell me, you* who wish to be under the law, do you* not hear the law? 4:22 For* it has been written, that Abraham had two sons, one from the maidservant and one from the free woman. 4:23But the son from the maidservant is born after the flesh; but the son from the free woman is bornthrough the promise. 4:24 Which things are allegorized; for* these women are two covenants*; one from Mount Sinai, which is Hagar, giving-birth to children into bondage. 4:25 For* this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the Jerusalem that is now and she is enslaved with her children. 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of all of us. 4:27 For* it has been written, НO barren who is not baring children be joyous; burst forth and cry, you who is not travail, because more are the children of the desolate rather than from her who has the husband.М{Is. 54:1} 4:28 Now brethren, we are children of the promise like Isaac was. 4:29 But as then, he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was born after the Spirit, so it is also now. 4:30 But what does the Scripture say? Cast out the maidservant and her son; for* the son of the maidservant may never* inherit with the son of the free woman. 4:31 Consequently, brethren, we are not children of a maidservant, but of the free woman.



Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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