American Standard Version
"Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise. "
— Galatians 4:23, American Standard Version
“But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.”
“However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.”
“But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.”
“But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman was by promise.”
“Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.”
“But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.”
but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.
Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise.
Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.
Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.