And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Father!”

But what does the scripture say? “Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.