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Galatians - ch 4 v 21 - 31
- Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
- For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free-woman.
- But he who was of the bond-woman, was born according to the flesh; but he of the free-woman was by promise.
- Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
- For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
- But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
- For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she who 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 born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
- Nevertheless, what saith the scripture? Cast out the bond-woman and her son: for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman.
- So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.
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