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spirit you felt then? I am sure you would have taken out your own eyes and
given them to me if it had been possible. 16 Have I now become your enemy
because I am telling you the truth?
17 Those false teachers are so eager to win your favor, but their intentions
are not good. They are trying to shut you off from me so that you will pay
attention only to them. 18 If someone is eager to do good things for you,
that’s all right; but let them do it all the time, not just when I’m with you.
19 Oh, my dear children! I feel as if I’m going through labor pains for you
again, and they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives.
20 I wish I were with you right now so I could change my tone. But at this
distance I don’t know how else to help you.
Abraham’s Two Children
me, you who want to live under the law, do you know what the law
actually says? 22 The Scriptures say that Abraham had two sons, one from his
slave wife and one from his freeborn wife.* 23 The son of the slave wife was
born in a human attempt to bring about the fulllment of God’s promise.
But the son of the freeborn wife was born as God’s own fulllment of his
promise.
24 These two women serve as an illustration of God’s two covenants. The
rst woman, Hagar, represents Mount Sinai where people received the law
that enslaved them. 25 And now Jerusalem is just like Mount Sinai in Arabia,* because she and her children live in slavery to the law. 26 But the other
woman, Sarah, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. She is the free woman,
and she is our mother. 27 As Isaiah said,
21 Tell
“Rejoice, O childless woman,
you who have never given birth!
Break into a joyful shout,
you who have never been in labor!
For the desolate woman now has more children
than the woman who lives with her husband!”*
28 And you, dear brothers and sisters, are children of the promise, just like
Isaac. 29 But you are now being persecuted by those who want you to keep
the law, just as Ishmael, the child born by human effort, persecuted Isaac,
the child born by the power of the Spirit.
30 But what do the Scriptures say about that? “Get rid of the slave and her
son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the
free woman’s son.”* 31 So, dear brothers and sisters, we are not children of
the slave woman; we are children of the free woman.
Freedom in Christ
So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t
get tied up again in slavery to the law.
2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make
you right with God, then Christ will be of no benet to you. 3 I’ll say it again.
If you are trying to nd favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey
every regulation in the whole law of Moses. 4 For if you are trying to make
yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from
Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace.
5 But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive by faith the righteousness God has promised to us. 6 For when we place our faith in Christ
Jesus, there is no benet in being circumcised or being uncircumcised.
What is important is faith expressing itself in love.
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4:22 See Gen 16:15; 21:2-3. 4:25 Greek And Hagar, which is Mount Sinai in Arabia, is now like
Jerusalem; other manuscripts read And Mount Sinai in Arabia is now like Jerusalem. 4:27 Isa 54:1.
4:30 Gen 21:10.
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