Galatians

Time to read: 45 min
Shortest reading time: 4 min 41 sec Chapter 1
Longest reading time: 10 min 37 sec Chapter 3

4-22Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. 23The son of the slave woman was born by human connivance; the son of the free woman was born by God's promise. 24This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God.....28Isn't it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise? 29In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless connivance (Ishmael) harassed the child who came--empowered by the Spirit--from the faithful promise (Isaac). Isn't it clear that the harassment you are now experiencing from the Jerusalem heretics follows that old pattern? 30There is a Scripture that tells us what to do: "Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son." 31Isn't that conclusive? We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.