Galatians 4
aligned by seat — same row, same verse, whatever each bible numbers it
| v | Wycliffe |
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| 1 | But Y seie, as long tyme as the eir is a litil child, he dyuersith no thing fro a seruaunt, whanne he is lord of alle thingis; |
| 2 | but he is vndur keperis and tutoris, in to the tyme determyned of the fadir. |
| 3 | So we, whanne we weren litle children, we serueden vndur the elementis of the world. |
| 4 | But aftir that the fulfilling of tyme cam, God sente his sone, |
| 5 | maad of a womman, maad vndur the lawe, that he schulde ayenbie hem that weren vndur the lawe, that we schulden vnderfonge the adopcioun of sones. |
| 6 | And for ye ben Goddis sones, God sente his spirit in to youre hertis, criynge, Abba, fadir. |
| 7 | And so ther is not now a seruaunt, but a sone; and if he is a sone, he is an eir bi God. |
| 8 | But thanne ye vnknowynge God, serueden to hem that in kynde weren not goddis. |
| 9 | But now whanne ye han knowe God, and ben knowun of God, hou ben ye turned eftsoone to the febil and nedi elementis, to the whiche ye wolen eft serue? |
| 10 | Ye taken kepe to daies, and monethis, and tymes, and yeris. |
| 11 | But Y drede you, lest without cause Y haue trauelid among you. |
| 12 | Be ye as Y, for Y am as ye. Britheren, Y biseche you, ye han hurt me no thing. |
| 13 | But ye knowen, that bi infirmyte of fleisch Y haue prechid to you now bifore; |
| 14 | and ye dispiseden not, nether forsoken youre temptacioun in my fleisch, but ye resseyueden me as an aungel of God, as `Crist Jhesu. |
| 15 | Where thanne is youre blessyng? For Y bere you witnesse, that if it myyte haue be don. ye wolden haue put out youre iyen, and haue yyuen hem to me. |
| 16 | Am Y thanne maad an enemye to you, seiynge to you the sothe? |
| 17 | Thei louen not you wel, but thei wolen exclude you, that ye suen hem. |
| 18 | But sue ye the good euermore in good, and not oneli whanne Y am present with you. |
| 19 | My smale children, whiche Y bere eftsoones, til that Crist be fourmed in you, |
| 20 | and Y wolde now be at you, and chaunge my vois, for Y am confoundid among you. |
| 21 | Seie to me, ye that wolen be vndir the lawe, `han ye not red the lawe? |
| 22 | For it is writun, that Abraham hadde two sones, oon of a seruaunt, and oon of a fre womman. |
| 23 | But he that was of the seruaunt, was borun after the flesh; but he that was of the fre womman, by a biheeste. |
| 24 | The whiche thingis ben seid bi an othir vndirstonding. For these ben two testamentis; oon in the hille of Synai, gendringe in to seruage, which is Agar. |
| 25 | For Syna is an hille that is in Arabie, which hille is ioyned to it that is now Jerusalem, and seruith with hir children. |
| 26 | But that Jerusalem that is aboue, is fre, whiche is oure modir. |
| 27 | For it is writun, Be glad, thou bareyn, that berist not; breke out and crye, that bringist forth no children; for many sones ben of hir that is left of hir hosebonde, more than of hir that hath an hosebonde. |
| 28 | For, britheren, we ben sones of biheeste aftir Isaac; |
| 29 | but now as this that was borun after the fleisch pursuede him that was aftir the spirit, so now. |
| 30 | But what seith the scripture? Caste out the seruaunt and hir sone, for the sone of the seruaunt schal not be eir with the sone of the fre wijf. |
| 31 | And so, britheren, we ben not sones of the seruaunt, but of the fre wijf, bi which fredom Crist hath maad vs fre. |