2 Instead, he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father.
3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.
4 When the time came to completion, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father! ”
7 So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
8 But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.