Galatians 4:21–5:1

²¹Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?

²²For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman.

²³But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman was by promise.

²⁴Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is Agar.

²⁵For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.

²⁶But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother.

²⁷For 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.

²⁸Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

²⁹But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was after the spirit: so also it is now.

³⁰But 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.

³¹So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free.

Chapter 5

Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.