A moment in scripture
Galatians 4:23
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But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
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The surrounding passage
- Galatians 4:21
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
- Galatians 4:22
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
- Galatians 4:24
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
- Galatians 4:25
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.