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