That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but (A)the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

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29 And (A)if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s (B)seed, and (C)heirs according to the promise.

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23 But he who was of the bondwoman (A)was born according to the flesh, (B)and he of the freewoman through promise, 24 which things are symbolic. For these are [a]the two covenants: the one from Mount (C)Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the (D)Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written:

(E)“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”

28 Now (F)we, brethren, as Isaac was, are (G)children of promise.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:24 NU, M omit the

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