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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 4, Verse 25

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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.
King James Version
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
American Standard Version
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.
New English Translation
I wish those agitators would go so far as to castrate themselves!
World English Bible
For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
26
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.
27
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
28
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
29
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.
31
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
1
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
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For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
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Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
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For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.