But then it was the good pleasure of God, who set me apart [for this purpose] before I was born, to call me [to this ministry] through His unearned favor.

But when I saw that they were not being straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas (Peter) in front of everyone, “If you, being a Jew, live [as you have been living] like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how is it that you are [now virtually] forcing the Gentiles to live like Jews [if they want to eat with you]?”

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

but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.

these things have an allegorical meaning: the two women signify the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, which is represented by Agar, whose children were born in a state of servitude.

Now we, brothers, like Isaac, are children born to fulfill the promise.

but just as in old times the son born by the flesh used to persecute the son born by the power of the Spirit, so also 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].