For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children (4:25)

But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all (4:26)

For it is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband (4:27)

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise (4:28)

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now (4:29)

Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman (4:30)

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free (4:31)

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