Galatians 4:21–5:1

²¹Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear? ²²for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman, ²³but he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise; ²⁴which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar; ²⁵for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is, and is in servitude with her children, ²⁶and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all, ²⁷for it hath been written, ‘Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate—more than of her having the husband.’ ²⁸And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise, ²⁹but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now; ³⁰but what saith the Writing? ‘Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;’ ³¹then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant’s children, but the free-woman’s.

Chapter 5

¹In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free—stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;