³ so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

⁹ and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

⁴ and `that' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

⁸ See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

²⁰ If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

³¹ then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

¹ In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

²⁵ for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now `is', and is in servitude with her children,

²³ And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

²⁴ so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

²⁵ and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,

¹⁹ Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --

¹⁶ who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

¹⁵ for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba -- Father.'

¹⁰ now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

²⁸ `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,