Week 11 Scriptures: Galatians 4:21-31
“ 21 Tell me—those of you who wish to be under
the law—do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that
Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. 23
The son of the slave girl was conceived by natural means, whereas the son of
the free woman was born through promise. 24 These things are being
spoken allegorically: For these women are two covenants; one from Mount Sinai gives
birth to slave children—this is Hagar. 25 Hagar is Mount Sinai in
Arabia, and she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, because the city is in
slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and
she is our mother. 27 For it is written,
‘Be happy
childless woman who bears no children. Shout and cry, you who have not suffered labor pains; because the
deserted woman will have many children, more than the wife who has a husband.’
28 And you, brothers and sisters, are children of
promise like Isaac. 29 But just as it was then, so it is now: the
child born by natural means persecuted the child born according to the Spirit. 30
But what does scripture say? ‘Throw out the slave woman and her son, because
the son of the slave woman will not inherit with the free woman’s son. 31
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of
the free woman.”
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