but when it pleased God, who ordained me from my birth, and called me by his especial favour, to reveal his son to me,

for to declare his son by me, that I should preach him among the heathen: Immediately I commended not of the matter with flesh and blood,

I am crucified with Christ. I live verily, yet now not I, but Christ liveth in me. For the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the son of God, which loved me, and gave himself for me.

know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,

For ye are all the sons of God, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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;

But when the time was full come, God sent his son - born of a woman, and made bond unto the law -

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

Because ye are sons, God hath sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, which crieth "Abba, father."

Wherefore now art thou not a servant, but a son. If thou be the son, thou art also the heir of God through Christ.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman.

Now the slave woman's son was conceived through human means, while the free woman's son was conceived through divine promise.

For it is written, "Rejoice, you childless woman, who cannot give birth to any children! Break into song and shout, you who feel no pains of childbirth! For the children of the deserted woman are more numerous than the children of the woman who has a husband."

Now, brothers, you [Christians] are children of the promise [made to Abraham. See 3:29] just like Isaac, [Abraham's son] was.

But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Nevertheless, what saith the scripture? "Put away the bondwoman and her son. For the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman."