for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,

to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,

so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is, and is in servitude with her children,

for it hath been written, 'Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'

but what saith the Writing? 'Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'