For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.

These things are illustrations, for the women represent the two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery—this is Hagar.

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

Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.