2 but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of  the father,
         
                                
                        3 so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the  world were in servitude,
         
                                
                        4 and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His  Son, come of a woman, come under law,
         
                                
                        5 that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of  sons we may receive;
         
                                
                        6 and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of  His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!`
         
                                
                        7 so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son,  also an heir of God through Christ.
         
                                
                        8 But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude  to those not by nature gods,