003:027 for all of you who have been baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ. 003:028 In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus. 003:029 And if you belong to Christ, then you are indeed true descendants of Abraham, and are heirs in fulfilment of the promise. 004:001 Now I say that so long as an heir is a child, he in no respect differs from a slave, although he is the owner of everything, 004:002 but he is under the control of guardians and trustees until the time his father has appointed. 004:003 So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved. 004:004 But, when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law, 004:005 in order to purchase the freedom of all who were subject to Law, so that we might receive recognition as sons. 004:006 And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of His Son to enter your hearts and cry "Abba! our Father!" 004:007 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir also through God's own act. 004:008 But at one time, you Gentiles, having no knowledge of God, were slaves to gods which in reality do not exist. 004:009 Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him-- how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved? 004:010 You scrupulously observe days and months, special seasons, and years. 004:011 I am alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose. 004:012 Brethren, become as I am, I beseech you; for I have also become like you. In no respect did you behave badly to me. 004:013 And you know that in those early days it was on account of bodily infirmity that I proclaimed the Good News to you, 004:014 and yet the bodily infirmity which was such a trial to you, you did not regard with contempt or loathing, but you received me as if I had been an angel of God or Christ Jesus Himself! 004:015 I ask you, then, what has become of your self-congratulations? For I bear you witness that had it been possible you would have torn out your own eyes and have given them to me. 004:016 Can it be that I have become your enemy through speaking the truth to you? 004:017 These men pay court to you, but not with honourable motives. They want to exclude you, so that you may pay court to them. 004:018 It is always an honourable thing to be courted in an honourable cause; always, and not only when I am with you, my children--