¹Hoću reći: sve dok je baštinik maloljetan, ništa se ne razlikuje od roba premda je gospodar svega:

¹Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

²pod skrbnicima je i upraviteljima sve do dana koji je odredio otac.

²but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father.

³Tako i mi: dok bijasmo maloljetni, robovasmo počelima svijeta.

³So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;

⁴A kada dođe punina vremena, odasla Bog Sina svoga: od žene bi rođen, Zakonu podložan

⁴but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,

⁵da podložnike Zakona otkupi te primimo posinstvo.

⁵that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship.

⁶A budući da ste sinovi, odasla Bog u srca vaša Duha Sina svoga koji kliče: "Abba! Oče!"

⁶But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

⁷Tako više nisi rob nego sin; ako pak sin, onda i baštinik po Bogu.

⁷So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.

⁸Onda dok još niste poznavali Boga, služili ste bogovima koji po naravi to nisu.

⁸But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;

⁹Ali sada kad ste spoznali Boga - zapravo, kad je Bog spoznao vas - kako se sad opet vraćate k nemoćnim i bijednim počelima i opet im, ponovno, hoćete robovati?

⁹but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

¹⁰Dane pomno opslužujete, i mjesece, i vremena, i godine!

¹⁰Ye observe days and months and times and years.

¹¹Sve se bojim za vas! Da se možda nisam uzalud trudio oko vas!

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

¹²Postanite, braćo, molim vas, kao ja jer i ja postadoh kao vi. Ničim me niste povrijedili.

¹²Be as *I* [am], for *I* also [am] as *ye*, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

¹³Znate: prvi sam vam put za bolesti navješćivao evanđelje.

¹³But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

¹⁴Svoju kušnju, moje tijelo, niste ni prezreli ni odbacili, nego ste me primili kao anđela Božjega, kao Krista Isusa.

¹⁴and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Gdje je sada ono vaše blaženstvo? Svjedočim vam doista: kad bi bilo moguće, oči biste svoje bili iskopali i dali mi ih.

¹⁵What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given [them] to me.

¹⁶Tako? Postadoh li vam neprijateljem propovijedajući vam istinu?

¹⁶So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

¹⁷Oni revnuju za vas, ne časno, nego - odvojiti vas hoće da onda vi za njih revnujete.

¹⁷They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.

¹⁸Dobro je da se za vas revnuje u dobru uvijek, a ne samo kad sam nazočan kod vas,

¹⁸But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you --

¹⁹dječice moja, koju ponovno u trudovima rađam dok se Krist ne oblikuje u vama.

¹⁹my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:

²⁰Htio bih sada biti kod vas, pa i jezik promijeniti, jer ne znam što bih s vama.

²⁰and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.

²¹Recite mi vi, koji želite biti pod Zakonom, zar ne čujete Zakona?

²¹Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?

²²Ta pisano je da je Abraham imao dva sina, jednoga od ropkinje i jednoga od slobodne.

²²For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman.

²³Ali onaj od ropkinje rođen je po tijelu, a onaj od slobodne snagom obećanja.

²³But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.

²⁴To je slika. Doista, te žene dva su Saveza: jedan s brda Sinaja, koji rađa za ropstvo - to je Hagara.

²⁴Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.

²⁵Jer Hagara znači brdo Sinaj u Arabiji i odgovara sadašnjem Jeruzalemu jer robuje zajedno sa svojom djecom.

²⁵For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children;

²⁶Onaj pak Jeruzalem gore slobodan je; on je majka naša.

²⁶but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

²⁷Pisano je doista: Kliči, nerotkinjo, koja ne rađaš, podvikuj od radosti, ti što ne znaš za trudove! Jer osamljena više djece ima negoli udana.

²⁷For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her that has a husband.

²⁸Vi ste, braćo, kao Izak, djeca obećanja.

²⁸But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.

²⁹I kao što je onda onaj po tijelu rođeni progonio onoga po duhu rođenoga, tako je i sada.

²⁹But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.

³⁰Nego, što veli Pismo? Otjeraj sluškinju i sina njezina jer sin sluškinje ne smije biti baštinik sa sinom slobodne.

³⁰But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.

³¹Zato, braćo, nismo djeca ropkinje nego slobodne.

³¹So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but [children] of the free woman.