Galatians 4:21-31

Revised Geneva Translation

²¹ Tell me, you who would be under the Law, do you not hear the Law?

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

²³ But he who was by the servant was born after the flesh. And he who was by the free woman was born by promise.

²⁴ These things are allegorical. For these mothers are the two Testaments. The one called Hagar begat those of mount Sinai, who are enslaved.

²⁵ For Hagar (or Sinai) is a mountain in Arabia, and it is now presently Jerusalem. And she is enslaved with her children.

²⁶ But the Jerusalem above is free and is the mother of us all.

²⁷ For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who bear no children! Break forth, and cry, you who do not travail! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.”

²⁸ Therefore, brothers, we are like Isaac: children of the promise.

²⁹ But just as at that time the one who was born after the flesh persecuted the one who was born after the Spirit, so also it is now.

³⁰ But what says the Scripture? ‘Put out the servant and her son. For the son of the servant shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.’

³¹ Then, brothers, we are not children of the servant, but of the free woman.