Now an intermediary is not for one party alone, but God is one.

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

But I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.

But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.