48:004:016 Am I therefore become your enemy, because
I tell you the
truth?
48:004:017 They zealously affect you, but not well;
yea, they would
exclude
you, that ye might affect them.
48:004:018 But it is good to be zealously affected
always in a good
thing,
and not only when I am present with you.
48:004:019 My little children, of whom I travail in
birth again until
Christ
be formed in you,
48:004:020 I desire to be present with you now, and
to change my voice;
for
I stand in doubt of you.
48:004:021 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the
law, do ye not hear
the
law?
48:004:022 For it is written, that Abraham had two
sons, the one by a
bondmaid,
the other by a freewoman.
48:004:023 But he who was of the bondwoman was born
after the flesh; but
he
of the freewoman was by promise.
48:004:024 Which things are an allegory: for
these are the two covenants;
the
one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage,
which
is Agar.
48:004:025 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia,
and answereth to
Jerusalem
which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
48:004:026 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which
is the mother of
us
all.
48:004:027 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren
that bearest not;
break
forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the
desolate
hath many more children than she which hath an
husband.
48:004:028 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
48:004:029 But as then he that was born after the
flesh persecuted him
that
was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
48:004:030 Nevertheless what saith the scripture?
Cast out the bondwoman
and
her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not
be heir
with
the son of the freewoman.
48:004:031 So then, brethren, we are not children
of the bondwoman, but
of
the free.
48:005:001 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made
us
free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
48:005:002 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye
be circumcised, Christ
shall
profit you nothing.
48:005:003 For I testify again to every man that is
circumcised, that he
is
a debtor to do the whole law.
48:005:004 Christ is become of no effect unto you,
whosoever of you are
justified
by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
48:005:005 For we through the Spirit wait for the
hope of righteousness
by
faith.
48:005:006 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision
availeth any thing,
nor
uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.


