for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

but he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise;

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;'

then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.

There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.