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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 4, Verse 21

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Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
King James Version
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
American Standard Version
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.
New English Translation
This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you!
World English Bible
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?
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But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise.
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Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
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For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
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But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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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.
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Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
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But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
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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.
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So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
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Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.