004:011 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you. 004:012 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong, 004:013 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time. 004:014 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 004:015 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. 004:016 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? 004:017 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. 004:018 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you. 004:019 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you-- 004:020 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. 004:021 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law? 004:022 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman. 004:023 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. 004:024 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. 004:025 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. 004:026 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 004:027 For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."{Isaiah 54:1} 004:028 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 004:029 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 004:030 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."{Genesis 21:10} 004:031 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman. 005:001 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 005:002 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. 005:003 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.