for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.

in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.

And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One woman, in fact, is Hagar, from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

For it is written, “Rejoice, you childless one, you who bear no children, burst into song and shout, you who endure no birth pangs, for the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than the children of the one who is married.”

Now you, my brothers and sisters, are children of the promise, like Isaac.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are children, not of an enslaved woman but of the free woman.