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With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

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.

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

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

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.

But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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

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

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

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

Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,