For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.”

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.