Galatians:4:21-31

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* Tell me ! ye who , under law , are wishing to be : The law , do ye not hear ? * For it is written , that , Abraham , had two sonsone by the bondmaid , and one by the free woman ; * But , he that was of the bondmaid , after the flesh , had been born , whereas , he that was of the free woman , through means of a promise . * Which things , indeed , may bear another meaning ; for , the same , are two covenants , one , indeed , from Mount Sinai , into bondage , bringing forth , the which is Hagar , * And , the Hagar , is Mount Sinai , in Arabia , she answereth , however , unto the present Jerusalem , for she is in bondage with her children ; * But , the Jerusalem above , is free , the which is our mother ; * For it is written Be gladdened , O barren one ! that wast not giving birth , break forth and shout , thou that wast not in birth-pains , because , more , are the children of the deserted one , than of her that had the husband . * And , we , brethren , after the manner of Isaac , are children of a promise . * But , just as , then , he that after the manner of the flesh had been born , did persecute him who after the manner of the Spirit , thus , also now . * But , what saith the scripture ? Cast out the serving woman and her son ; for in nowise shall the son of the serving woman inherit with the son of the free . * Wherefore , brethren , we are not children of a serving woman , but of the free :

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