Galatians 4:24-31

New International Version

²⁴These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. ²⁵Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. ²⁶But the Jerusalem that is above^(A) is free, and she is our mother. ²⁷For it is written:

“Be glad, barren woman,
    you who never bore a child;
shout for joy and cry aloud,
    you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
    than of her who has a husband.”^[a]^(B)

²⁸Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.^(C) ²⁹At that time the son born according to the flesh^(D) persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit.^(E) It is the same now. ³⁰But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”^[b]^(F) ³¹Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman,^(G) but of the free woman.^(H)