1 WYC But Y seie, as long tyme as the eir is a litil child, he dyuersith no thing fro a seruaunt, whanne he is lord of alle thingis; BSB BSB: What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.
2 WYC but he is vndur keperis and tutoris, in to the tyme determyned of the fadir. BSB BSB: He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.
3 WYC So we, whanne we weren litle children, we serueden vndur the elementis of the world. BSB BSB: So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
5 WYC maad of a womman, maad vndur the lawe, that he schulde ayenbie hem that weren vndur the lawe, that we schulden vnderfonge the adopcioun of sones. BSB BSB: to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
6 WYC And for ye ben Goddis sones, God sente his spirit in to youre hertis, criynge, Abba, fadir. BSB BSB: And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
7 WYC And so ther is not now a seruaunt, but a sone; and if he is a sone, he is an eir bi God. BSB BSB: So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.
8 WYC But thanne ye vnknowynge God, serueden to hem that in kynde weren not goddis. BSB BSB: Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
9 WYC But now whanne ye han knowe God, and ben knowun of God, hou ben ye turned eftsoone to the febil and nedi elementis, to the whiche ye wolen eft serue? BSB BSB: But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
10 WYC Ye taken kepe to daies, and monethis, and tymes, and yeris. BSB BSB: You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
11 WYC But Y drede you, lest without cause Y haue trauelid among you. BSB BSB: I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
12 WYC Be ye as Y, for Y am as ye. Britheren, Y biseche you, ye han hurt me no thing. BSB BSB: I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.
13 WYC But ye knowen, that bi infirmyte of fleisch Y haue prechid to you now bifore; BSB BSB: You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
14 WYC and ye dispiseden not, nether forsoken youre temptacioun in my fleisch, but ye resseyueden me as an aungel of God, as `Crist Jhesu. BSB BSB: And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.
15 WYC Where thanne is youre blessyng? For Y bere you witnesse, that if it myyte haue be don. ye wolden haue put out youre iyen, and haue yyuen hem to me. BSB BSB: What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16 WYC Am Y thanne maad an enemye to you, seiynge to you the sothe? BSB BSB: Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 WYC Thei louen not you wel, but thei wolen exclude you, that ye suen hem. BSB BSB: Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
18 WYC But sue ye the good euermore in good, and not oneli whanne Y am present with you. BSB BSB: Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.
19 WYC My smale children, whiche Y bere eftsoones, til that Crist be fourmed in you, BSB BSB: My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
20 WYC and Y wolde now be at you, and chaunge my vois, for Y am confoundid among you. BSB BSB: how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.
21 WYC Seie to me, ye that wolen be vndir the lawe, `han ye not red the lawe? BSB BSB: Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
22 WYC For it is writun, that Abraham hadde two sones, oon of a seruaunt, and oon of a fre womman. BSB BSB: For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
23 WYC But he that was of the seruaunt, was borun after the flesh; but he that was of the fre womman, by a biheeste. BSB BSB: His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.
24 WYC The whiche thingis ben seid bi an othir vndirstonding. For these ben two testamentis; oon in the hille of Synai, gendringe in to seruage, which is Agar. BSB BSB: These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
25 WYC For Syna is an hille that is in Arabie, which hille is ioyned to it that is now Jerusalem, and seruith with hir children. BSB BSB: Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
26 WYC But that Jerusalem that is aboue, is fre, whiche is oure modir. BSB BSB: But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
27 WYC For it is writun, Be glad, thou bareyn, that berist not; breke out and crye, that bringist forth no children; for many sones ben of hir that is left of hir hosebonde, more than of hir that hath an hosebonde. BSB BSB: For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
28 WYC For, britheren, we ben sones of biheeste aftir Isaac; BSB BSB: Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
29 WYC but now as this that was borun after the fleisch pursuede him that was aftir the spirit, so now. BSB BSB: At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
30 WYC But what seith the scripture? Caste out the seruaunt and hir sone, for the sone of the seruaunt schal not be eir with the sone of the fre wijf. BSB BSB: But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
31 WYC And so, britheren, we ben not sones of the seruaunt, but of the fre wijf, bi which fredom Crist hath maad vs fre. BSB BSB: Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
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