Hagar

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. — read the full passage →

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman. — read the full passage →

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. — read the full passage →

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? — read the full passage →

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. — read the full passage →

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.