Sons and Heirs
What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything. Gal 4:23Gal 4:29Gen 24:2-32Ki 11:122Ki 10:1-22Ki 12:2 He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.
So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles 1of the world. Col 2:20Col 2:8Gal 4:9Gal 2:4Gal 4:31Act 15:10Rom 8:15Jhn 8:31 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, Isa 7:14Mrk 1:15Jhn 1:14Rom 1:3Eph 1:101Jn 4:14Jhn 3:16Mat 1:23 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons. Heb 9:15Eph 1:51Pe 1:18-20Eph 1:7Gal 3:13Heb 9:12Rev 5:9Gal 3:26 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Rom 8:15-17Rom 5:5Rom 8:92Co 3:17Eph 2:18Php 1:19Eph 4:30Jud 1:20 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God. Gal 3:29Rom 8:16-17Gal 3:261Co 3:21-23Gal 4:5-6Gal 4:312Co 6:16-18Psa 73:26
Paul’s Concern for the Galatians
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. 1Co 8:41Th 1:91Th 4:5Eph 2:11-121Co 1:211Co 10:19-201Pe 4:32Ch 13:9 But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? 1Co 8:3Gal 3:3Rom 8:31Jn 5:201Ch 28:92Pe 2:201Co 13:122Co 4:6 You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! Col 2:16-17Rom 14:5Lev 23:1-44Lev 25:13Num 28:1-29Lev 25:1 I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain. 1Th 3:52Jn 1:8Gal 2:2Php 2:161Co 15:582Co 11:2-32Co 12:20-21Act 16:6 I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong. 2Co 2:51Ki 22:41Co 9:20-23Gen 34:152Co 6:13Act 21:21Gal 2:14Gal 6:14
You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you. 1Co 2:32Co 12:7-102Co 10:102Co 11:302Co 11:62Co 13:4Gal 1:6Act 16:6 And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself. Mat 10:401Th 2:13Heb 13:22Co 5:202Sa 14:172Sa 19:27Isa 53:2-3Luk 10:16 What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. Rom 5:21Jn 3:16-18Col 4:131Th 2:81Th 5:132Co 8:3Gal 3:14Gal 4:19 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? Amo 5:10Pro 9:8Jhn 8:45Gal 5:7Psa 141:51Ki 22:8Gal 2:5Jhn 7:7
Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them. 2Co 11:13-15Rom 16:182Pe 2:31Co 4:8Mat 23:151Co 11:21Co 4:182Co 11:3 Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you. Php 2:12Php 1:27Rev 3:191Co 15:58Gal 4:13Psa 119:139Tit 2:14Isa 59:17
My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, Eph 4:13Rom 13:14Rom 8:29Eph 4:24Col 4:12Col 3:101Co 4:14-15Php 2:5 how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you. 1Th 2:17-181Co 4:19-211Th 3:9
Hagar and Sarah
(Genesis 21:9–21)
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says? Gal 3:10Rom 3:19Gal 3:23-24Gal 4:9Mat 22:29-32Jhn 15:25Jhn 5:46-47Rom 10:3-10 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. 2 Gen 16:15Gen 21:10Gen 16:2-4Gen 21:1-2 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise. Heb 11:11Gen 21:1-2Rom 9:7-8Gal 4:28-29Gen 18:10-14Gen 17:15-19Rom 4:18-21Rom 10:8
These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar. Gen 21:9-131Co 10:11Gen 16:15-16Gen 16:8Gen 25:12Heb 10:15-18Heb 12:24Hos 11:10 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. Gal 1:17Mat 23:37Psa 68:17Act 1:11Deu 33:2Heb 12:18Jdg 5:5Luk 13:34 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. Heb 12:22Php 3:20Rev 21:2Mic 4:1-2Rev 3:12Isa 66:10Isa 65:18Psa 87:3-6 For it is written: Isa 54:1-5Psa 113:9Rut 4:14-161Sa 2:51Ti 5:5Rut 1:11-132Sa 13:20Isa 49:21
“Rejoice, O barren woman,
who bears no children;
break forth and cry aloud,
you who have never travailed;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband.” 3
Now you, 4 brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. Gal 4:23Rom 9:8-9Gal 3:29Rom 4:13-18Act 3:25 At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now. Gen 21:9Rom 8:13Gal 5:111Th 2:14-15Gal 4:23Heb 10:33-34Jhn 15:9Jhn 3:5
But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” 5 Gen 21:10-12Jhn 8:35Rom 8:15-17Gal 3:22Gal 3:8Jas 4:5Rom 11:2Rom 11:7-11 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman. Gal 5:1Gal 5:13Jhn 8:36Jhn 1:12-131Jn 3:1-2Heb 2:14-15