Galatians 4

1 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.

1 我说那承受产业的，虽然是全业的主人，但为孩童的时候却与奴仆毫无分别，

2 He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.

2 乃在师傅和管家的手下，直等他父亲预定的时候来到。

3 So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

3 我们为孩童的时候，受管于世俗小学之下，也是如此。

4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

4 及至时候满足， 神就差遣他的儿子，为女子所生，且生在律法以下，

5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

5 要把律法以下的人赎出来，叫我们得着儿子的名分。

6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

6 你们既为儿子， 神就差他儿子的灵进入你们 的心，呼叫：「阿爸！父！」

7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.

7 可见，从此以后，你不是奴仆，乃是儿子了；既是儿子，就靠着 神为后嗣。

8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

8 但从前你们不认识 神的时候，是给那些本来不是神的作奴仆；

9 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?

9 现在你们既然认识 神，更可说是被 神所认识的，怎么还要归回那懦弱无用的小学，情愿再给他作奴仆呢？

10 You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!

10 你们谨守日子、月份、节期、年份，

11 I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.

11 我为你们害怕，惟恐我在你们身上是枉费了工夫。

12 I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

12 弟兄们，我劝你们要像我一样，因为我也像你们一样。你们一点没有亏负我。

13 You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

13 你们知道我头一次传福音给你们，是因为身体有疾病。

14 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.

14 你们为我身体的缘故受试炼，没有轻看我，也没有厌弃我，反倒接待我，如同 神的使者，如同基督耶稣。

15 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.

15 你们当日所夸的福气在哪里呢？那时你们若能行，就是把自己的眼睛剜出来给我，也都情愿。这是我可以给你们作见证的。

16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

16 如今我将真理告诉你们，就成了你们的仇敌吗？

17 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.

17 那些人热心待你们，却不是好意，是要离间你们 ，叫你们热心待他们。

18 Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.

18 在善事上，常用热心待人原是好的，却不单我与你们同在的时候才这样。

19 My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

19 我小子啊，我为你们再受生产之苦，直等到基督成形在你们心里。

20 how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.

20 我巴不得现今在你们那里，改换口气，因我为你们心里作难。

21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?

21 你们这愿意在律法以下的人，请告诉我，你们岂没有听见律法吗？

22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

22 因为律法上记着，亚伯拉罕有两个儿子，一个是使女生的，一个是自主之妇人生的。

23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

23 然而，那使女所生的是按着血气生的；那自主之妇人所生的是凭着应许生的。

24 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.

24 这都是比方：那两个妇人就是两约。一约是出于西奈山，生子为奴，乃是夏甲。

25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

25 这夏甲二字是指着阿拉伯的西奈山，与现在的耶路撒冷同类，因耶路撒冷和她的儿女都是为奴的。

26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

26 但那在上的耶路撒冷是自主的，她是我们的母。

27 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.”

27 因为经上记着： 不怀孕、不生养的，你要欢乐； 未曾经过产难的，你要高声欢呼； 因为没有丈夫的，比有丈夫的儿女更多。

28 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

28 弟兄们，我们是凭着应许作儿女，如同以撒一样。

29 At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

29 当时，那按着血气生的逼迫了那按着圣灵生的，现在也是这样。

30 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.”

30 然而经上是怎么说的呢？是说：「把使女和她儿子赶出去！因为使女的儿子不可与自主妇人的儿子一同承受产业。」

31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

31 弟兄们，这样看来，我们不是使女的儿女，乃是自主妇人的儿女了。