Book of Common Prayer

Listen To The Law. We Are Children of The Free Promise, Not of The Slave Covenant

²¹ Tell me, the ones wanting to be under the Law, do you not hear the Law? ²² For it has been written that Abraham had two sons— one by the slave-woman and one by the free woman. ²³ But the one by the slave-woman has been born according to the flesh, and the one by the free woman through the promise— ²⁴ which things are being allegorized^[a], for these women are two covenants. One^[b] is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery, which is Hagar ²⁵ (now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia). And she^[c] corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she^[d] is a slave^[e] with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem above is free— which is our mother^[f]. ²⁷ For it has been written, “Celebrate, barren one, the one not giving-birth. Break-forth and shout, the one not suffering-birth-pains. Because many more are the children of the desolate^[g] than of the one having the husband!”[Isa 54:1] ²⁸ And you, brothers, are children of the promise in accordance with Isaac. ²⁹ But just as at-that-time the one having been born according to the flesh was persecuting the one born according to the Spirit, so also now. ³⁰ But what does the Scripture say? “Send-out the slave-woman and her son. For the son of the slave-woman shall by no means inherit with the son of the free woman” [Gen 21:10]. ³¹ Therefore, brothers, we are not children of a slave-woman, but of the free woman.

Christ Set Us Free, So Stand Firm In Faith. If You Pursue The Law, Christ Will Not Profit You

5 Christ set us free for freedom. Therefore be standing-firm, and do not again be held-in^[h] a yoke of slavery.

¹¹ And the Pharisees came out and began to debate^[a] with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, testing Him. ¹² And having sighed-deeply in His spirit, He says “Why is this generation seeking a sign? Truly I say to you, a sign will never^[b] be given to this generation”.

Jesus Warns The Disciples To Beware of The Leaven of The Pharisees

¹³ And having left them, having again gotten into the boat, He went to the other side. ¹⁴ And they forgot to take bread. And except one loaf, they were not having any with them in the boat. ¹⁵ And He was giving orders to them, saying “Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod”. ¹⁶ And they were discussing with one another that they did not have bread. ¹⁷ And having known it, He says to them “Why are you discussing that you do not have bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Do you have your heart hardened? ¹⁸ Having eyes, are you not seeing? And having ears, are you not hearing? And do you not remember?— ¹⁹ When I broke the five loaves for the five-thousand, how many full baskets of fragments did you pick up?” They say to Him, “Twelve”. ²⁰ “When I broke the seven loaves for the four-thousand, the fillings of how many large-baskets of fragments did you pick up?” And they say to Him, “Seven”. ²¹ And He was saying to them, “Do you not yet understand?”