Galatians 4:31
Galatians 4:21-31 The Message (MSG)
Tell me now, you who have become so enamored with the law: Have you paid close attention to that law? Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. The son of the slave woman was born by human plotting; the son of the free woman was born by God’s promise. This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God. One is from Mount Sinai in Arabia. It corresponds with what is now going on in Jerusalem—a slave life, producing slaves as offspring. This is the way of Hagar. In contrast to that, there is an invisible Jerusalem, a free Jerusalem, and she is our mother—this is the way of Sarah. Remember what Isaiah wrote: Rejoice, barren woman who bears no children, shout and cry out, woman who has no birth pangs, Because the children of the barren woman now surpass the children of the chosen woman. Isn’t it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise? In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless plotting (Ishmael) harassed the child who came—empowered by the Spirit—from the faithful promise (Isaac). Isn’t it clear that the harassment you are now experiencing from the Jerusalem heretics follows that old pattern? There is a Scripture that tells us what to do: “Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son.” Isn’t that conclusive? We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Galatians 4:31 King James Version (KJV)
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Galatians 4:31 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, but of the free woman.
Galatians 4:31 New Century Version (NCV)
So, my brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Galatians 4:31 American Standard Version (ASV)
Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.
Galatians 4:31 New International Version (NIV)
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Galatians 4:31 New King James Version (NKJV)
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
Galatians 4:31 Amplified Bible (AMP)
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].
Galatians 4:31 New Living Translation (NLT)
So, dear brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman; we are children of the free woman.