Galatians 4

Question 1

Galatians 4:1

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Galatians 4:2

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Galatians 4:3

Answer 3

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

Question 4

Galatians 4:4

Answer 4

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

Question 5

Galatians 4:5

Answer 5

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Question 6

Galatians 4:6

Answer 6

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

Question 7

Galatians 4:7

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Galatians 4:8

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Galatians 4:9

Answer 9

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 elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

Question 10

Galatians 4:10

Answer 10

You observe days and months and seasons and years!

Question 11

Galatians 4:11

Answer 11

I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.

Question 12

Galatians 4:12

Answer 12

Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong.

Question 13

Galatians 4:13

Answer 13

You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,

Question 14

Galatians 4:14

Answer 14

and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

Question 15

Galatians 4:15

Answer 15

What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.

Question 16

Galatians 4:16

Answer 16

Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Question 17

Galatians 4:17

Answer 17

They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.

Question 18

Galatians 4:18

Answer 18

It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you,

Question 19

Galatians 4:19

Answer 19

my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

Question 20

Galatians 4:20

Answer 20

I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Question 21

Galatians 4:21

Answer 21

Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?

Question 22

Galatians 4:22

Answer 22

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.

Question 23

Galatians 4:23

Answer 23

But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

Question 24

Galatians 4:24

Answer 24

Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.

Question 25

Galatians 4:25

Answer 25

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

Question 26

Galatians 4:26

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Galatians 4:27

Answer 27

For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.”

Question 28

Galatians 4:28

Answer 28

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Question 29

Galatians 4:29

Answer 29

But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

Question 30

Galatians 4:30

Answer 30

But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

Question 31

Galatians 4:31

Answer 31

So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.