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While he is young, he is cared for by men his father trusts. These men tell the child what he can and cannot do. The child cannot do what he wants to do until he has become a certain age. We were as children also held by the Law. We obeyed the Law in our religious worship. But at the right time, God sent His Son. A woman gave birth to Him under the Law.

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The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery(A) under the elemental spiritual forces[a] of the world.(B) But when the set time had fully come,(C) God sent his Son,(D) born of a woman,(E) born under the law,(F)

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  1. Galatians 4:3 Or under the basic principles