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This is what I am saying: When young children inherit all that their father owned, they are still no different from his slaves. It doesn’t matter that they own everything. While they are children, they must obey those who are chosen to care for them. But when they reach the age the father set, they are free. It is the same for us. We were once like children, slaves to the useless rules[a] of this world.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:3 rules Or “powers.” Also in verse 9.

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