but he is under the control of guardians and trustees until the time his father has appointed.
»If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.«
For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors–for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.
So that the Law has acted the part of a tutor-slave to lead us to Christ, in order that through faith we may be declared to be free from guilt.
Now I say that so long as an heir is a child, he in no respect differs from a slave, although he is the owner of everything,
So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.