to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God.

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and represents Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in slavery with her children.

For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who do not bear. Break forth and shout, you that do not travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."