Galatians 4:1-7 As long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the However, until the set time had fully come , that boy wasn't any different from a slave . Christ's financial transaction resulted in a change in legal status for those He purchased, getting us

We, His servants , will serve Him (the word serve can also be translated worship ).

Literally translated, this vanity means worthless, futile, inconsequential.

Dig Deeper Another way to render the word translated profaned in this passage is defiled.

pastors, need to be ever vigilant and on the lookout for divisive and scandalous people (the Greek word translated

Literally translated, it means the Church is always being reformed.

'Belong' is hardly a strong enough word - to translate the word Paul used literally, you've been congenitally

From now on, we read here, you must "regard no one from a worldly point of view" (v16 - literally translated

Literally translated, you will experience God's blessing and forgiving love.

If our cousins from down south would have translated this, it would read "For I know the plans I have