21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it iswritten that Abraham had two sons, eone by a slave woman and fone by a free woman.23 But gthe son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while hthe son of the freewoman was born through promise. 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: thesewomen are two icovenants. jOne is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she isHagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;5 she corresponds to the presentJerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But kthe Jerusalem above is free, andshe is our mother. 27 For it is written,
l“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”
28 Now you,6 brothers, mlike Isaac, nare children of promise. 29 But just as at that time hewho was born according to the flesh opersecuted him who was born according to theSpirit, pso also it is now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? q“Cast out the slave womanand her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.” 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but rof the free woman.
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