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Galatians - ch 4 v 21 - 31
- Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?
- For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free woman.
- But he who was of the bondwoman, was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman, was by promise.
- Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from mount Sina, engendering unto bondage; which is Agar:
- For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
- But that Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is our mother.
- For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.
- Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
- But as then he, that was born according to the flesh, persecuted him that was after the spirit; so also it is now.
- But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.
- So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free.
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