³ So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

⁹ But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

⁴ And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

⁸ Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

²⁰ If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

³¹ So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

¹ Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

²⁵ Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.

²³ But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.

²⁴ So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

²⁵ But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.

¹⁹ What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.

¹⁶ That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

¹⁵ For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

¹⁰ Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

³¹ Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

²⁸ Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.