Bible verse
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.
Galatians 4:1 · BSB
The verses around it, from 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.
2 He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.
3 So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
KJV
Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
ASV
But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;
ERV
But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;
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