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My children, for whom I again travail until Christ should be formed to you,

even now I desired to be present with you and to change my voice, for I am in doubt as to you.

For it has been written, Abraham had two sons, one out of the slave woman and one out of the free woman.

which things are being allegorized, for these are two covenants, one, indeed, from Mount Sinai bringing forth to slavery (which is Hagar,

for Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and she slaves with her children),

for it has been written, "Be glad, barren one not bearing; break forth and shout, the one not travailing; for more are the children of the desolate rather than she having the husband." Isa. 54:1

But what says the Scripture? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for in no way shall the son of the slave woman inherit with the son of the free woman ." Gen. 21:10

For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness out of faith.

For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but faith working through love.

For, brothers, you were called to freedom. Only do not use the freedom for an opening to the flesh. But through love serve one another.

For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in this : "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Lev. 19:18

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another; lest whatever you may will, these things you do.

For if anyone thinks to be something, he deceives himself, being nothing.

For each one will bear his own load.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man may sow, that he also will reap.

For the one sowing to his flesh will reap corruption of the flesh. But the one sowing to the Spirit will reap everlasting life from the Spirit.

But we should not weaken in doing good, for in due time we shall reap, if we do not faint.

As many as desire to look well in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For they themselves having been circumcised do not even keep the Law, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

But may it never be for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.