Bible verse
At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
Galatians 4:29 · BSB
The verses around it, from Galatians 4.
25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
27 For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
28 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
29 At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
30 But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
KJV
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
ASV
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now.
ERV
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
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