idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions,

Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

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

You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

But the scripture imprisoned everything and everyone under sin so that the promise could be given – because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ – to those who believe.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?