Galatians 4:1-5

1I will say it like this. Think about a son who will one day receive what belongs to his father. While he is still a child, he is like a slave in the family. That is true, even though all his father's things really belong to him.

2He has to wait until the time that his father has decided. Until then, the son has to obey his teachers and the guides who take care of him.

3In the same way, we were children like that in God's family. We were slaves to the bad spirits that rule this world.

4But when the time that God had decided arrived, he sent his Son into the world. A human mother gave birth to him. He was born a Jew, under the authority of God's Law.

5In that way, he made us free from the authority of the Law. Before that, we were like slaves under the Law. But God's Son paid our debt, so that God would accept us as his true children.