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Passage Lookup: Galatians 4:21-31
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Galatians 4:21
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Tell me, you who want to be under the law,(ad) are you not aware of what the law says?
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Galatians 4:22
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman(ae) and the other by the free woman.(af)
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Galatians 4:23
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His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh,(ag) but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.(ah)
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Galatians 4:24
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These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
Galatians 4:25
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Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
Galatians 4:26
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But the Jerusalem that is above(ai) is free, and she is our mother.
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Galatians 4:27
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For it is written: "Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband."[e](aj)
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Galatians 4:28
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Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.(ak)
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Galatians 4:29
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At that time the son born according to the flesh(al) persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit.(am) It is the same now.
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Galatians 4:30
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But what does Scripture say? "Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman's son."[f](an)
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Galatians 4:31
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Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman,(ao) but of the free woman.(ap)
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