Add parallel Print Page Options

29 Isaac was born because of God's Spirit. The son who was born in the human way gave much trouble to Isaac at that time. You who are believers receive the same kind of trouble now. 30 But this is what it says in the Bible: ‘Send away the woman who is a slave and her son. That woman's son will never receive anything from his father. The son of the free woman will receive all those good things.’[a] 31 So then, my Christian friends, we are not children of the woman who is a slave. No, we are children of the free woman.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 4:30 See Genesis 21:10. Hagar's son was called Ishmael. Sarah's son was called Isaac. Hagar and Ishmael caused much trouble to Sarah and Isaac.