¹Ale hovorím: Po celý čas, dokiaľ je dedič nedospelý, v ničom nie je rozdielny od sluhu, hoci je pánom všetkého;

¹And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant — being lord of all,

²ale je pod tútormi a pod správcami, až do času, ktorý určil otec.

²but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,

³Tak i my: keď sme boli nedospelí, boli sme podrobení pod živly sveta, v službu.

³so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

⁴Ale keď prišla plnosť času, poslal Bôh svojho Syna, pošlého zo ženy, podrobeného pod zákon,

⁴and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

⁵aby tých, ktorí boli daní pod zákon, vykúpil, aby sme vzali nám určené synovstvo.

⁵that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;

⁶A že ste synovia, poslal Bôh Ducha svojho Syna do našich sŕdc, ktorý volá: Abba Otče!

⁶and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!`

⁷Takže už nie si sluha, ale syn, a jestli syn, aj dedič Boží skrze Krista.

⁷so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

⁸Ale vtedy neznajúc Boha slúžili ste bohom, ktorí prírodou nie sú nimi.

⁸But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

⁹Ale teraz poznajúc Boha, ba čo viac, poznaní súc od Boha, jakože sa opät obraciate k bezvládnym a biednym živlom, ktorým chcete zase slúžiť znova?

⁹and now, having known God — and rather being known by God — how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

¹⁰Bedlivo pozorujete na dni, mesiace, časy a roky.

¹⁰days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!

¹¹Bojím sa o vás, aby som nejako nebol nadarmo pracoval na vás.

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

¹²Buďte jako ja, lebo aj ja som ako vy, bratia, prosím vás. Nič ste mi neublížili.

¹²Become as I [am] — because I also [am] as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

¹³A viete, že som vám tam prv pre slabosť tela zvestoval evanjelium.

¹³and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

¹⁴A nepohŕdli ste mojím pokušením na mojom tele ani ste ním neopovrhli, ale ako anjela Božieho ste ma prijali, jako Krista Ježiša.

¹⁴and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me — as Christ Jesus;

¹⁵Jaké bolo teda vaše blahoslavenstvo a kde je?! Lebo vám dávam svedoctvo, že keby to bolo bývalo možné, boli by ste si vylúpili svoje oči a dali mi.

¹⁵what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

¹⁶Tak teda som sa vám stal nepriateľom pravdu vám hovoriac?

¹⁶so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

¹⁷Nedobre horlia za vás, ale vytvoriť vás chcú, aby ste za nich horlili.

¹⁷they are zealous for you — [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

¹⁸A dobre je horliť v dobrom vždycky, a nie len v tedy, keď som prítomný u vás.

¹⁸and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

¹⁹Moje deti, ktorých zase rodím v bolestiach, dokiaľ nebude Kristus vypodobený vo vás!

¹⁹my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

²⁰No, chcel by som teraz byť prítomný u vás a zmeniť svoj hlas, lebo som v rozpakoch o vás.

²⁰and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.

²¹Povedzte mi vy, ktorí to chcete byť pod zákonom, či nečujete zákona?

²¹Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

²²Lebo je napísané, že Abrahám mal dvoch synov, jedného od dievky, otrokyne, a jedného od slobodnej, zákonitej ženy.

²²for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

²³Ale ten od dievky sa narodil podľa tela a ten zo slobodnej zo zasľúbením,

²³but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise;

²⁴ktoré to veci sú alegóriou, obrazom lebo to sú tie dve smluvy, jedna s vrchu Sinai, rodiaca deti v rabstvo, a to je Hagar.

²⁴which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;

²⁵Lebo Hagarou je vrch Sinai v Arábii a zodpovedá terajšiemu Jeruzalemu, lebo aj on slúži v rabstve so svojimi deťmi.

²⁵for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children,

²⁶Ale ten vrchný Jeruzalem je slobodnou, ktorý je matkou všetkých nás.

²⁶and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,

²⁷Lebo je napísané: Veseľ sa, neplodná, ty, ktorá nerodíš! Vykríkni a zvolaj, ktorá nepracuješ ku porodu! Lebo viacej bude mať detí opustená ako tá, ktorá má muža.

²⁷for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many [are] the children of the desolate — more than of her having the husband.`

²⁸Ale my, bratia, sme jako Izák, deťmi zasľúbenia.

²⁸And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

²⁹Lež ako vtedy ten narodený podľa tela prenasledoval toho, ktorý bol podľa Ducha, tak i teraz.

²⁹but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

³⁰Ale čo hovorí Písmo? Vyžeň dievku i jej syna, lebo syn dievky nebude dediť so synom slobodnej.

³⁰but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;`

³¹A tak tedy, bratia, nie sme deťmi dievky, ale deti slobodnej.

³¹then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant`s children, but the free-woman`s.