But just as at that time the [child] born according to human descent persecuted the [child born] according to the Spirit, so also now.

But the child of the slave girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born to fulfill the promise.

So [now], you are no longer a slave but a child, and since you are a child, you also will receive an inheritance through [the blessings of] God.

Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one the child of the slave-woman and the other the child of the free woman.

For the Scripture says: "Rejoice, you childless woman, who never bore a child; break forth into shouting, you who feel no birth pangs; for the desolate woman has many children, even more than the married one."

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,