He is subject to the control of guardians and stewards, during the period for which his father has power to appoint them.
If you remain united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be yours.
Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.
Thus the Law has proved a guide to lead us to Christ, in order that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith.
My point is this--As long as the heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a slave, though he is master of the whole estate.
And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;