Gálatas 4

1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all, 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father. 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, 5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children. 6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba,*4:6 Abba is a Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for "Father" or "Daddy" used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way. Father!" 7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? 10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years. 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong, 13 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time. 14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. 18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is 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, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman. 23 However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. 24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written,

"Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear.

Break out and shout, you who don’t travail.

For the desolate women have more children than her who has a husband."✝4:27 Isaiah 54:1

28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 30 However, what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman."✝4:30 Genesis 21:10 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.

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.