Gálatas 4

1 Ko tāku kupu ia tēnei: I te mea he tamariki tonu te tangata mōna te kāinga, kāhore ia e rerekē i te pononga, ahakoa ko te rangatira ia o ngā mea katoa; 2 engari, e meatia ana e ngā kaitohutohu, e ngā kaititiro, kia taea rā anō te wā i whakaritea e te pāpā. 3 Waihoki ko tātou, i te mea e tamariki ana, he pononga tātou nā ngā mea tīmatanga o te ao. 4 Ā, nō ka tutuki te tāima, ka tonoa mai e te Atua tāna Tama, i whānau i te wahine, i whānau i raro i te ture, 5 hei hoko i te hunga i raro i te ture, kia whiwhi ai tātou ki te whakatamarikitanga.

6 Nā, i te mea he tamariki koutou, kua tonoa mai e te Atua te Wairua o tāna Tama ki roto ki ō koutou ngākau, e karanga ana, "E Apa, e Pā!" 7 Heoi, kua mutu tōu ponongatanga, engari kua tama koe; ā, ki te mea he tama, nā mōu ngā mea i roto i te Atua.

Te Māharahara o Pāora ki te Hunga Karatia

8 Heoi i reira, i te mea kīhai koutou i mātau ki te Atua, he pononga koutou nā ngā mea ehara nei i te atua tupu. 9 Ināianei ia, i te mea ka mātau nei koutou ki te Atua, arā, ka mātauria nei koutou e te Atua, he aha koutou ka tahuri ai anō ki aua mea ngoikore, rawakore, ki ngā mea tīmatanga, e hokia nā e tō koutou hiahia, kia waiho koutou hei pononga mā aua mea? 10 E mau ana koutou ki ngā rā, ki ngā marama, ki ngā wā, ki ngā tau. 11 E manawapā ana ahau ki a koutou, kei kore he hua mō tāku i mahi ai i roto i a koutou.

12 E ōku tēina, ko tāku tohe tēnei ki a koutou, kia rite ki ahau; e rite ana hoki ahau ki a koutou. Kāhore ā koutou mahi hē ki ahau. 13 E mātau ana koutou he mea nā te ngoikore e tōku kikokiko tāku kauwhau i te rongopai ki a koutou i te tuatahi. 14 Heoi, kīhai koutou i whakahāwea, i whakakino ki tōku whakamātautauranga i tōku kikokiko; nā, tahuri mai ana koutou ki ahau, ānō he anahera ahau nā te Atua, me te mea ānō ko Īhu Karaiti. 15 Kei hea rā tērā hari o koutou? He kaiwhakaatu hoki ahau mō tā koutou, me i taea kua tīkarohia e koutou ō koutou kanohi, ā, kua hōmai ki ahau. 16 Koia, kua hoariritia rānei ahau ki a koutou, mōku i kōrero i te pono ki a koutou?

17 Ko tā rātou whaiwhai i a koutou ehara i te pai; engari, e mea ana rātou kia tūtakina mai koutou, kia whai ai ko koutou ki a rātou. 18 He mea pai ia kia matenuitia i runga i te pai i ngā wā katoa, kauaka hoki i tōku nohoanga anake ki a koutou. 19 E āku tamariki, ka mamae nei anō ahau mō koutou, kia whai āhua rā anō a te Karaiti i roto i a koutou, 20 ko tāku hiahia me i konā ahau i a koutou nā āianei, kia puta kē anō tōku reo; nō te mea e ruarua ana ahau ki a koutou.

Te Tauira o Hakara rāua ko Hera

21 Kī mai ki ahau, e te hunga e hiahia ana kia noho i raro i te ture, kāhore ianei koutou e rongo ki tā te ture? 22 Kua oti hoki te tuhituhi, tokorua ngā tama a Āperahama, kotahi nā te wahine pononga, kotahi nā te wahine rangatira. 23 Ko tā te pononga nō te kikokiko tōna whānautanga. Ko tā te wahine rangatira ia he mea kōrero mai i mua.

24 He mea whakarite aua mea: ko ngā wāhine nei ngā kawenata e rua; kotahi nō Maunga Hinai, whānau ake ana hei taurekareka, ko Hakara tēnei. 25 Nā, ko tēnei Hakara ko Maunga Hinai i Arāpia, e rite ana hoki ki Hiruhārama onāianei, he pononga nei hoki ia, rātou ko āna tamariki. 26 Tēnā, ko te Hiruhārama i runga he mea herekore, ko ia tō tātou whaea. 27 Kua oti hoki te tuhituhi:

"Kia hari, e te pākoko

kāhore nei e whānau!

Hāmama, karanga,

e te mea kāhore nei kia whakamamae;

he tini kē hoki ngā tamariki

a te mea mahue i ā te mea whai tāne."

28 Nā, ko tātou nei, e ōku tēina, e rite ana ki a Īhaka, he tamariki nā te kupu whakaari. 29 Engari e rite ana anō ki tō mua, ko te mea nō te kikokiko nei tōna whānautanga, whakatoia ana e ia te tama nō te Wairua nei tōna; e pērā ana anō ināianei. 30 Heoi, e pēhea ana tā te karaipiture? "Peia atu te wahine pononga rāua ko tāna tama; e kore hoki te tama a te wahine pononga e whiwhi tahi me te tama a te wahine rangatira ki te taonga." 31 Nā, ehara tātou, e ōku tēina, i te tamariki nā te wahine pononga, engari nā te wahine rangatira.

1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all; 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father. 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world: 4 but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6 And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7 So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

8 Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods: 9 but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years. 11 I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

12 I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, for I also am become as ye are. Ye did me no wrong: 13 but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time: 14 and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15 Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. 16 So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth? 17 They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them. 18 But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you— 20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman. 23 Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise. 24 Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar. 25 Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother. 27 For it is written,

Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not;

Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not:

For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.

28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now. 30 Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman. 31 Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.