New King James Version

Galatians 4:17-24 New King James Version (NKJV)

17. They zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them.

18. But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you.

19. My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

20. I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.

21. Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman.

23. But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise,

24. which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar—