Galatians 4:23

American Standard Version

Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise.

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Galatians 4:23 in other translations

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

Galatians 4:23 · World English Bible

Galatians 4:23 in context

  1. 21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
  2. 22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.
  3. 23Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise.
  4. 24Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.
  5. 25Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.