These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:
“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mist
to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the a
This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden sinc
So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram
Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads o
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”
Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is found
Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with
and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Chri
Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.
Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheri
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery
Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this i