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1 Esto es lo que quiero decir: Mientras que un heredero es menor de edad, en la práctica es igual que un esclavo, aunque sea propietario de las riquezas de su padre.
1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,
2 Tiene que obedecer a sus tutores y administradores hasta que llegue la fecha que el padre señaló.
2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
3 Así nos pasaba a nosotros. Cuando éramos menores de edad, éramos esclavos de los poderes que controlan el mundo.
3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
4 Pero cuando se cumplió el plazo, Dios envió a su Hijo, nacido de mujer y nacido bajo la ley,
4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
5 a fin de comprar nuestra libertad, ya que éramos esclavos de la ley, y así adoptarnos como hijos suyos.
5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children.
6 Y como ustedes son sus hijos, Dios envió al Espíritu de su Hijo a nuestros corazones, y por eso lo llamamos «Papá, papá».
6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
7 Así que ya no eres esclavo, sino hijo de Dios. Y como eres su hijo, Dios te ha hecho su heredero.
7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Antes que ustedes conocieran a Dios, eran esclavos de los que en realidad no son dioses.
8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
9 Pero ahora que conocen a Dios, o mejor dicho, que Dios los conoce a ustedes, ¿cómo se les ocurre retroceder y volver a ser esclavos de esos poderes que no valen nada y no pueden hacer nada bueno por ustedes?
9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
10 ¿Cómo se les ocurre seguir guardando los días, meses, estaciones y años?
10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
11 Temo por ustedes. ¡Temo que mi trabajo entre ustedes haya sido inútil!
11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
12 Hermanos, sean como yo, porque yo me he identificado con ustedes. Ustedes no me han ofendido en nada.
12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
13 Ustedes bien saben cómo me acogieron la primera vez que les prediqué el evangelio, aun cuando entonces estaba enfermo.
13 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
14 Y aunque mi enfermedad fue una prueba para ustedes, no me rechazaron ni me echaron de entre ustedes. Al contrario, me cuidaron como si hubiera sido un ángel de Dios o Jesucristo mismo.
14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 ¿Dónde está aquella alegría que experimentaban? Me consta que con gusto se habrían sacado los ojos para dármelos, si esto hubiera sido posible.
15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
16 ¿Me considerarán ahora un enemigo porque les digo la verdad?
16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 Esos que tan ansiosos están de ganarse el favor de ustedes no tienen muy buenas intenciones. Lo que intentan es apartarlos de nosotros para que ustedes les presten más atención a ellos.
17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
18 No hay nada malo en que muestren interés por los demás, siempre que lo hagan con buenas intenciones. Y tampoco en que sea siempre y no sólo cuando estoy con ustedes.
18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
19 Hijitos míos, ¡de nuevo sufro dolores de parto hasta que Cristo se forme en ustedes!
19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
20 Daría cualquier cosa por estar allá con ustedes y no tener que hablarles de esta manera, porque francamente me tienen muy confundido.
20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
21 Los que quieren obedecer la ley, díganme: ¿Por qué no se fijan bien en lo que dice la ley?
21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
22 Porque está escrito que Abraham tuvo dos hijos: uno con una esclava y otro con una mujer libre.
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
23 En el nacimiento del hijo de la esclava no hubo nada sobrenatural; pero el hijo de la libre nació porque Dios le prometió a Abraham que nacería.
23 However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
24 Esto es como un ejemplo: Las dos mujeres representan dos pactos: una, que es Agar, representa el pacto del monte Sinaí. Ella fue la madre del esclavo.
24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
25 Agar representa al monte Sinaí que está en Arabia, el cual simboliza a la actual ciudad de Jerusalén, que vive en la esclavitud con sus hijos.
25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
26 Pero nuestra madre es la Jerusalén celestial; y esta es libre.
26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 De ella está escrito: «Regocíjate, oh mujer estéril; tú, que nunca has tenido hijos, prorrumpe en gritos de júbilo; tú que no has tenido dolores de parto, porque la abandonada tendrá más hijos que la mujer que tiene esposo».
27 For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate women have more children than her who has a husband.”
28 Ustedes, hermanos, al igual que Isaac, son los hijos que Dios prometió.
28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29 Y al igual que Ismael, el hijo que nació por decisión humana, persiguió a Isaac, el hijo que nació por obra del Espíritu, así también sucede ahora.
29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
30 Pero, ¿qué dicen las Escrituras?: «Echa fuera a la esclava y a su hijo, para que el hijo de la esclava no comparta la herencia del hijo de la libre».
30 However, what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”
31 Así que, hermanos, ¡no somos hijos de la esclava, sino de la libre!
31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Galatians 4:23; Galatians 4:29; Genesis 24:2–3
- 3 Colossians 2:20; Colossians 2:8; Galatians 4:9; Galatians 2:4; Galatians 4:31–5:1
- 4 Isaiah 7:14; Mark 1:15; Romans 1:3; John 1:14; Matthew 1:23
- 5 Hebrews 9:15; Ephesians 1:5; 1 Peter 1:18–20; Ephesians 1:7; Galatians 3:13
- 6 Romans 8:15–17; Romans 5:5; Romans 8:9; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Ephesians 2:18
- 7 Galatians 3:29–4:2; Romans 8:16–17; Galatians 3:26; 1 Corinthians 3:21–23; Galatians 4:5–6
- 8 1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; Ephesians 2:11–12; 1 Corinthians 10:19–20
- 9 1 Corinthians 8:3; Galatians 3:3; Romans 8:3; 1 John 5:20; 2 Peter 2:20
- 10 Colossians 2:16–17; Romans 14:5; Leviticus 23:1–44; Numbers 28:1–29; Leviticus 25:13
- 11 1 Thessalonians 3:5; Philippians 2:16; 2 John 8; Galatians 2:2; Galatians 4:20
- 12 2 Corinthians 2:5; 1 Kings 22:4; 1 Corinthians 9:20–23; Genesis 34:15; Galatians 6:14
- 13 1 Corinthians 2:3; 2 Corinthians 12:7–10; 2 Corinthians 11:30; 2 Corinthians 10:10; Galatians 1:6
- 14 Matthew 10:40; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Hebrews 13:2; 2 Samuel 19:27; 2 Corinthians 5:20
- 15 Romans 5:2; Colossians 4:13; 1 John 3:16–18; Romans 9:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:13
- 16 Amos 5:10; Proverbs 9:8; John 8:45; Galatians 5:7; Psalm 141:5
- 17 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Romans 16:18; 2 Peter 2:3; Matthew 23:15; 1 Corinthians 4:8
- 18 Philippians 2:12; Revelation 3:19; Philippians 1:27; Psalm 119:139; 1 Corinthians 15:58
- 19 Ephesians 4:13; Romans 13:14; Romans 8:29; Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 4:12
- 20 1 Thessalonians 2:17–18; 1 Corinthians 4:19–21; 1 Thessalonians 3:9
- 21 Galatians 3:10; Romans 3:19; Matthew 22:29–32; Galatians 3:23–24; Galatians 4:9
- 22 Genesis 16:15; Genesis 21:10; Genesis 21:1–2; Genesis 16:2–4
- 23 Hebrews 11:11; Romans 9:7–8; Genesis 21:1–2; Genesis 18:10–14; Galatians 4:28–29
- 24 Genesis 21:9–13; Hosea 11:10; 1 Corinthians 10:11; Hebrews 10:15–18; Hebrews 12:24
- 25 Matthew 23:37; Galatians 1:17; Psalm 68:17; Psalm 68:8; Deuteronomy 33:2
- 26 Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 21:2; Philippians 3:20; Micah 4:1–2; Revelation 3:12
- 27 Isaiah 54:1–5; Psalm 113:9; Ruth 4:14–16; 1 Samuel 2:5; 1 Timothy 5:5
- 28 Galatians 4:23; Romans 9:8–9; Romans 4:13–18; Galatians 3:29; Acts 3:25
- 29 Genesis 21:9; Romans 8:13; Galatians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 2:14–15; Galatians 4:23
- 30 Genesis 21:10–12; John 8:35; Romans 8:15–17; Galatians 3:22; Romans 4:3
- 31 Galatians 5:13; Galatians 5:1; John 8:36; John 1:12–13; 1 John 3:1–2
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… in what sense [God] says, "That is a people who was not a people; and she is beloved who was not beloved;" and in what sense He says that "more are the children of her that was desolate, than of her who possessed a husband." For in reference to these points, and others of a like nature, the apostle exclaims: …
For she had "been the wife of one man," had requited her parents, had guided her house piously, was "well-reported of for good works," had "brought up children," as often travailing in birth of them as she saw them swerving from Thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
For that He did come forth of the Virgin's flesh, He hath declared by speaking of "that which was conceived in her;" and Paul, by saying, "made of a woman;" whereby he stops the mouths of them that say, Christ came among us as through some conduit.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For God sent forth His Son, says Paul, not made of a man and a woman, but made of a woman only, that is of a virgin.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… (di' ou) ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son," and "Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by (dia) the will of God;" and again, "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God." And "like as Christ was raised up from the dead by (dia) the glory of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)