to reveal his Son to me so that I might proclaim him among the gentiles, I did not confer with another human being at any time,

Now if we, while trying to be justified by the Messiah, have been found to be sinners, does that mean that the Messiah is serving the interests of sin? Of course not!

I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

But the Scripture has captured everything by means of sin's net, so that what was promised by the faithfulness of the Messiah might be granted to those who believe.

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,

Now because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts to cry out, "Abba! Father!"

Now the slave woman's son was conceived through human means, while the free woman's son was conceived through divine promise.

This is being said as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. The one woman, Hagar, is from Mount Sinai, and her children are born into slavery.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery along with her children.

But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now.

But what does the Scripture say? "Drive out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman must never share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."