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- Gen 16:2-4 : 2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. 4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
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- Gal 4:23-319 verses90%
23Howbeit the [son] {G3303} 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 {G1242} two covenants; {G3303} 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.
26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is {G3956} our mother.
27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For {G4183} more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.
28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, so also it is now.
30Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not {G3361} inherit with the son of the freewoman.
31Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.
- Gen 21:12-132 verses76%
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- Gal 4:1-55 verses72%
1But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;
2but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.
3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:
4but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
- Rom 9:7-104 verses71%
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 {G2192} Rebecca also having conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac—
- Gen 16:1-22 verses71%
1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
2And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
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4And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
- Gal 3:15-162 verses70%
15Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.
16Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.