Although we are Jews by natural birth, and not sinful Gentiles [who do not have a relationship with God],

to redeem them which were under the law: that we through election might receive the inheritance that belongeth unto the natural sons.

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

So then, believers, we [who are born again—reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose] are not children of a slave woman [the natural], but of the free woman [the supernatural].