World English Bible
"However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise."
— Galatians 4:23, World English Bible
“But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.”
“Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is 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, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.
However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.