nkjv Galatians:4:21-31 SEEK
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Tell me ,
you who desire to be under the law ,
do you not hear the law ?
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons :
the one by a bondwoman ,
the other by a freewoman .
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But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh ,
and he of the freewoman through promise ,
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which things are symbolic .
For these are the two covenants :
the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage ,
which is Hagar --
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for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia ,
and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is ,
and is in bondage with her children --
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but the Jerusalem above is free ,
which is the mother of us all .
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For it is written : "
Rejoice ,
O barren ,
You who do not bear !
Break forth and shout ,
You who are not in labor !
For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband ."
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Now we ,
brethren ,
as Isaac was ,
are children of promise .
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But ,
as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit ,
even so it is now .
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Nevertheless what does the Scripture say ? "
Cast out the bondwoman and her son ,
for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman ."
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So then ,
brethren ,
we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free .