Galatians 4:29

American Standard Version (1901)

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, so also it is now.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:9 : 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.
  • Gal 5:11 : 11 But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.
  • Gal 6:12-14 : 12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. 14 But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
  • 1 Thess 2:14-15 : 14 For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews; 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;
  • Heb 10:33-34 : 33 partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used. 34 For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.
  • Matt 23:34-37 : 34 Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
  • John 3:5 : 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God!
  • John 15:9 : 9 Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.
  • Rom 8:1 : 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
  • Gal 4:23 : 23 Howbeit the [son] by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the [son] by the freewoman [is born] through promise.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 4:30-31
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    30Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.

    31Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.

  • Gal 4:27-28
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    27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.

    28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

  • Gal 4:22-25
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    22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.

    23Howbeit the [son] by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the [son] by the freewoman [is born] through promise.

    24Which things contain an allegory: for these [women] are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.

    25Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.

  • Rom 9:7-10
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    7neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

    8That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

    9For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

    10And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac--

  • Gen 21:9-10
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    9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.

    10Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son: for the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

  • John 3:6
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    6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

  • Rom 8:4-5
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    4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

    5For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18[ even he] to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

  • Rom 9:12-13
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    12it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

    13Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise.

  • 1 Chr 1:28
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    28The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.

  • Rom 4:1
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    1What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh?

  • Gal 4:1
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    1But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;

  • Rev 12:13
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    13And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman that brought forth the man [child] .

  • Rom 8:14
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    14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

  • Rom 8:16
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    16The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:

  • 2 Cor 4:9
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    9pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

  • Gal 4:3
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    3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

  • 1 Cor 15:46
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    46Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.

  • Jas 4:5
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    5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

  • Gal 3:3-4
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    3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

    4Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

  • Gen 25:12
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    12Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:

  • Gal 4:7
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    7So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

  • Gen 21:12-13
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    12And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

    13And also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

  • John 1:13
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    13who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

  • John 8:41
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    41Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

  • John 8:37
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    37I know that ye are Abraham's seed: yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.

  • Heb 12:17
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    17For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father], though he sought it diligently with tears.

  • Job 19:28
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    28If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

  • Gal 4:19
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    19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

  • 1 Cor 4:12
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    12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

  • Gal 3:7
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    7Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

  • 1 Thess 2:14
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    14For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;