In Context

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

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

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

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

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

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

Galatians 4:6 in Other Translations