World English Bible

Galatians 4:23

“However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.”

Verse in context — Galatians 4

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

Freedom in Christ, apart from the law, through faith.