'Children' in the Bible

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.

My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.

These things are illustrations, for the women represent the two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery—this is Hagar.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

For it is written:Rejoice, childless woman,who does not give birth.Burst into song and shout,you who are not in labor,for the children of the desolate are many,more numerous than thoseof the woman who has a husband.

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.