rsv Galatians:4:22-31
rsv@Galatians:4:22 @ For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman.
rsv@Galatians:4:23 @ But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of the free woman through promise.
rsv@Galatians:4:24 @ Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
rsv@Galatians:4:25 @ Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
rsv@Galatians:4:26 @ But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
rsv@Galatians:4:27 @ For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not in travail; for the children of the desolate one are many more than the children of her that is married."
rsv@Galatians:4:28 @ Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.
rsv@Galatians:4:29 @ But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now.
rsv@Galatians:4:30 @ But what does the scripture say? "Cast out the slave and her son; for the son of the slave shall not inherit with the son of the free woman."
rsv@Galatians:4:31 @ So, brethren, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.