Galatians 4:5,21
Galatians 4:5 New King James Version (NKJV)
to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Galatians 4:21 New King James Version (NKJV)
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
Galatians 4:4-7 The Message (MSG)
But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law so that he might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law. Thus we have been set free to experience our rightful heritage. You can tell for sure that you are now fully adopted as his own children because God sent the Spirit of his Son into our lives crying out, “Papa! Father!” Doesn’t that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a slave, but a child? And if you are a child, you’re also an heir, with complete access to the inheritance.
Galatians 4:21-31 The Message (MSG)
Tell me now, you who have become so enamored with the law: Have you paid close attention to that law? Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. The son of the slave woman was born by human plotting; the son of the free woman was born by God’s promise. This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God. One is from Mount Sinai in Arabia. It corresponds with what is now going on in Jerusalem—a slave life, producing slaves as offspring. This is the way of Hagar. In contrast to that, there is an invisible Jerusalem, a free Jerusalem, and she is our mother—this is the way of Sarah. Remember what Isaiah wrote: Rejoice, barren woman who bears no children, shout and cry out, woman who has no birth pangs, Because the children of the barren woman now surpass the children of the chosen woman. Isn’t it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise? In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless plotting (Ishmael) harassed the child who came—empowered by the Spirit—from the faithful promise (Isaac). Isn’t it clear that the harassment you are now experiencing from the Jerusalem heretics follows that old pattern? There is a Scripture that tells us what to do: “Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son.” Isn’t that conclusive? We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Galatians 4:5 King James Version (KJV)
to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians 4:21 King James Version (KJV)
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Galatians 4:5 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Galatians 4:21 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?
Galatians 4:5 New Century Version (NCV)
God did this so he could buy freedom for those who were under the law and so we could become his children.
Galatians 4:21 New Century Version (NCV)
Some of you still want to be under the law. Tell me, do you know what the law says?
Galatians 4:5 American Standard Version (ASV)
that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians 4:21 American Standard Version (ASV)
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Galatians 4:5 New International Version (NIV)
to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
Galatians 4:21 New International Version (NIV)
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
Galatians 4:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
so that He might redeem and liberate those who were under the Law, that we [who believe] might be adopted as sons [as God’s children with all rights as fully grown members of a family]. [Rom 11:17-24]
Galatians 4:21 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Tell me, you who are bent on being under the Law, do you not listen to [what] the Law [really says]?
Galatians 4:5 New Living Translation (NLT)
God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.
Galatians 4:21 New Living Translation (NLT)
Tell me, you who want to live under the law, do you know what the law actually says?
Galatians 4:5 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Yet all of this was so that he would redeem and set free those held hostage to the law so that we would receive our freedom and a full legal adoption as his children.
Galatians 4:21-22 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Tell me, do you want to go back to living strictly by the law? Haven’t you ever listened to what the law really says? Have you forgotten that Abraham had two sons; one by the slave girl, and the other by the freewoman?