to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not!

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

But the Scripture has bound everyone under sin, so that that what was promised by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

But the son by the slave was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.

This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar.

Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

But what does the scripture say? "Cast out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave shall not inherit with the son of the free woman."