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Gal 4:21: Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

Gal 4:22: For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

Gal 4:23: But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

Gal 4:24: Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

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

Gal 4:26: But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Gal 4:27: 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.

Gal 4:28: Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

Gal 4:29: But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Gal 4:30: 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.

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