004:019 you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you. 004:020 Would that I were with you and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. 004:021 Tell me--you who want to continue to be subject to Law-- will you not listen to the Law? 004:022 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl and one by the free woman. 004:023 But we see that the child of the slave-girl was born in the common course of nature; but the child of the free woman in fulfilment of the promise. 004:024 All this is allegorical; for the women represent two Covenants. One has its origin on Mount Sinai, and bears children destined for slavery. 004:025 This is Hagar; for the name Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, which is in bondage together with her children. 004:026 But the Jerusalem which is above is free, and *she* is *our* mother. 004:027 For it is written, "Rejoice, thou barren woman that bearest not, break forth into a joyful cry, thou that dost not travail with child. For the desolate woman has many children-- more indeed than she who has the husband." 004:028 But you, brethren, like Isaac, are children born in fulfilment of a promise. 004:029 Yet just as, at that time, the child born in the common course of nature persecuted the one whose birth was due to the power of the Spirit, so it is now. 004:030 But what says the Scripture? "Send away the slave-girl and her son, for never shall the slave-girl's son share the inheritance with the son of the free woman." 004:031 Therefore, brethren, since we are not the children of a slave-girl, but of the free woman-- 005:001 Christ having made us gloriously free--stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery. 005:002 Remember that it is I Paul who tell you that if you receive circumcision Christ will avail you nothing. 005:003 I once more protest to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law of Moses. 005:004 Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law: you have fallen away from grace. 005:005 *We* have not, for through the Spirit we wait with longing hope for an acceptance with God which is to come through faith. 005:006 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only faith working through love. 005:007 You were running the race nobly! Who has interfered and caused you to swerve from the truth? 005:008 No such teaching ever proceeded from Him who is calling you. 005:009 A little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough.