but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,
In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
“At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south, but it shall not be this time as it was before.
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.