Hagar was the Egyptian slave woman who had had Abraham’s first son. Sarah saw Hagar’s son playing. {Sarah became upset.}
Galatians 4:29 - Easy To Read Version You belong to Christ. So you are Abraham’s {\cf2\super [45]} descendants. {\cf2\super [46]} You get all of God’s blessings because of the promise \{that God made to Abraham\}. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet [just] as at that time the child [of ordinary birth] born according to the flesh despised and persecuted him [who was born remarkably] according to [the promise and the working of] the [Holy] Spirit, so it is now also. [Gen. 21:9.] American Standard Version (1901) But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now. Common English Bible But just as it was then, so it is now also: the one who was conceived the normal way harassed the one who was conceived by the Spirit. Catholic Public Domain Version But just as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But as then he, that was born according to the flesh, persecuted him that was after the spirit; so also it is now. |
Hagar was the Egyptian slave woman who had had Abraham’s first son. Sarah saw Hagar’s son playing. {Sarah became upset.}
But Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth. A person must be born from water and the Spirit. {\cf2\super [47]} If a person is not born from water and the Spirit, then he cannot enter God’s kingdom.
If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, then you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s {\cf2\super [64]} help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, then you will have \{true\} life.
Abraham’s son from the slave woman was born in the normal human way. But the son from the free woman was born because of the promise \{God made to Abraham\}.
My brothers and sisters, I don’t teach that people must be circumcised. {\cf2\super [66]} If I do teach circumcision, {\cf2\super [67]} then why am I still being persecuted? If I still taught that people must be circumcised, then my telling them about the cross would not be a problem.