“However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Galatians 4 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.