Galatians 4:21-31 - Hagar And Sarah Represent Two Covenants
21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not understand the law? 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; one by a bondmaid, and one by a free woman. 23 But the one by the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; the other, by the free woman, was by promise. 24 These things are allegorized: for these women are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai that brings forth for bondage, which is Hagar. 25 For Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage with her children. 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free; and she is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written: Rejoice you barren, that do not bear: break forth and cry aloud, you that travail not: for many more are the children of the deserted, than of her that had the husband of the deserted.
28 We, indeed, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 But as then, he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was born ac cording to the Spirit, so even now. 30 But what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman.
31 Therefore, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free- woman.