2. Instead, he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father.
3. So also, when we were underage, we were subservient to the basic principles of the world.
4. But when the fullness of time came, God sent out His Son, born of a woman and born under law—
5. to free those under law, so we might receive adoption as sons.
6. Now because you are sons, God sent the Ruach of His Son into our hearts, who cries out, “Abba! Father!”
7. So you are no longer a slave but a son—and if a son, also an heir through God.
8. But at that time, when you did not know God, you served those who by nature are not gods at all.
9. But now you have come to know God—or rather you have come to be known by God. So how can you turn back again to those weak and worthless principles? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
10. You observe days and months and seasons and years.