(Now [the things] which I am writing to you, behold, [I assure you] before God that I am not lying.)

For if I build up again these [things] which I destroyed, I show myself [to be] a transgressor.

But at that time [when you] did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.

which [things] are spoken allegorically, for these [women] are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing [children] for slavery, who is Hagar.

But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, [things] which I am telling you [in advance], just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.