Genesis 16
| Now Sarai Abram's wife bare
him no children: and she had an handmaid, an
Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. |
| And Sarai said unto Abram,
Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from
bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may
be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram
hearkened to the voice of Sarai. |
| And Sarai Abram's wife took
Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had
dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave
her to her husband Abram to be his wife. |
| And he went in unto Hagar,
and she conceived: and when she saw that she had
conceived, her mistress was despised in her
eyes. |
| And Sarai said unto Abram,
My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into
thy bosom; and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD
judge between me and thee. |
| But Abram said unto Sarai,
Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it
pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with
her, she fled from her face. |
| And the angel of the LORD
found her by a fountain of water in the
wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. |
| And he said, Hagar, Sarai's
maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou
go? And she said, I flee from the face of my
mistress Sarai. |
| And the angel of the LORD
said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and
submit thyself under her hands. |
| And the angel of the LORD
said unto her, I will multiply thy seed
exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for
multitude. |
| And the angel of the LORD
said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and
shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name
Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy
affliction. |
| And he will be a wild man;
his hand will be against every man, and every
man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in
the presence of all his brethren. |
| And she called the name of
the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me:
for she said, Have I also here looked after him
that seeth me? |
| Wherefore the well was
called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between
Kadesh and Bered. |
| And Hagar bare Abram a son:
and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar
bare, Ishmael. |
| And Abram was fourscore and
six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. |
Genesis 16 |
Galatians 4
| Now I say, That the heir,
as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from
a servant, though he be lord of all; |
| But is under tutors and
governors until the time appointed of the
father. |
| Even so we, when we were
children, were in bondage under the elements of
the world: |
| But when the fulness of the
time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a
woman, made under the law, |
| To redeem them that were
under the law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons. |
| And because ye are sons,
God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into
your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. |
| Wherefore thou art no more
a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir
of God through Christ. |
| Howbeit then, when ye knew
not God, ye did service unto them which by
nature are no gods. |
| But now, after that ye have
known God, or rather are known of God, how turn
ye again to the weak and beggarly elements,
whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? |
| Ye observe days, and
months, and times, and years. |
| I am afraid of you, lest I
have bestowed upon you labour in vain. |
| Brethren, I beseech you, be
as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured
me at all. |
| Ye know how through
infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel
unto you at the first. |
| And my temptation which was
in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but
received me as an angel of God, even as Christ
Jesus. |
| Where is then the
blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record,
that, if it had been possible, ye would have
plucked out your own eyes, and have given them
to me. |
| Am I therefore become your
enemy, because I tell you the truth? |
| They zealously affect you,
but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that
ye might affect them. |
| But it is good to be
zealously affected always in a good thing, and
not only when I am present with you. |
| My little children, of whom
I travail in birth again until Christ be formed
in you, |
| I desire to be present with
you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in
doubt of you. |
| Tell me, ye that desire to
be under the law, do ye not hear the law? |
| For it is written, that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the
other by a freewoman. |
| But he who was of the
bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of
the freewoman was by promise. |
| Which things are an
allegory: for these are the two covenants; the
one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to
bondage, which is Agar. |
| For this Agar is mount
Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem
which now is, and is in bondage with her
children. |
| But Jerusalem which is
above is free, which is the mother of us all. |
| For it is written, Rejoice,
thou barren that bearest not; break forth and
cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate
hath many more children than she which hath an
husband. |
| Now we, brethren, as Isaac
was, are the children of promise. |
| But as then he that was
born after the flesh persecuted him that was
born after the Spirit, even so it is now. |
| Nevertheless what saith the
scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son:
for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir
with the son of the freewoman. |
| So then, brethren, we are
not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. |
Galatians 4 |
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