^4:28But you,³⁹ brothers and sisters,⁴⁰ are children of the promise like Isaac. ^4:29But just as at that time the one born by natural descent⁴¹ persecuted the one born according to the Spirit,⁴² so it is now. ^4:30But what does the scripture say? “Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son”⁴³ of the free woman. ^4:31Therefore, brothers and sisters,⁴⁴ we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

Freedom of the Believer

^5:1For freedom¹ Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke² of slavery.

Read in Logos

Galatians 5:1: For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Footnotes

39 Most (א A C D2 Ψ 062 𝔐 lat sy bo) read “we” here, while “you” is found in 𝔓46 B D* F G 0261vid 0278 33 1739 sa. It is more likely that a copyist, noticing the first person pronouns in vv. 26 and 31, changed a second person pronoun here to first person for consistency.
40 Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in .
41 Grk “according to the flesh”; see the note on the phrase “by natural descent” in .
42 Or “the one born by the Spirit’s [power].”
43 A quotation from Gen 21:10. The phrase of the free woman does not occur in Gen 21:10.
44 Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in .
1 Translating the dative as “For freedom” shows the purpose for Christ setting us free; however, it is also possible to take the phrase in the sense of means or instrument (“with [or by] freedom”), referring to the freedom mentioned in 4:31 and implied throughout the letter.
2 Here the yoke figuratively represents the burdensome nature of slavery.