Galatians 4:27

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For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

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  • Ruth 1:11-13 : 11 But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands? 12 Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons, 13 Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.
  • Ruth 4:14-16 : 14 And the women said to Naomi, A blessing on the Lord, who has not let you be this day without a near relation, and may his name be great in Israel. 15 He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him. 16 And Naomi took the child and put her arms round it, and she took care of it.
  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.
  • 2 Sam 13:20 : 20 And her brother Absalom said to her, Has your brother Amnon been with you? but now, let there be an end to your crying, my sister: he is your brother, do not take this thing to heart. So Tamar went on living uncomforted in her brother's house.
  • Ps 113:9 : 9 He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.
  • Isa 49:21 : 21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?
  • Isa 54:1-5 : 1 Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord. 2 Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong. 3 For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people. 4 Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years. 5 For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.
  • 1 Tim 5:5 : 5 Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.

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  • Isa 54:1-4
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    87%

    1 Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.

    2 Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.

    3 For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.

    4 Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.

  • Gal 4:22-26
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    79%

    22 Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman.

    23 Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

    24 Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar.

    25 Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.

    26 But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.

  • Gal 4:28-31
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    28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

    29 But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

    30 What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.

    31 So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

  • Ps 113:9
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    9 He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

  • Luke 23:29
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    29 For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.

  • John 16:21
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    21 When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5 Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

  • Judg 13:2-3
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    2 Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

    3 And the angel of the Lord came to the woman, and said to her, See now! though you have never given birth to children, you will be with child and give birth to a son.

  • Mic 4:9-10
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    9 Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:

    10 Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.

  • Gen 11:30
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    30 And Sarai had no child.

  • Luke 1:14
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    14 And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.

  • Deut 7:14
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    14 You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

  • Rom 9:7-10
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    7 And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

    8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

    9 For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

    10 And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac--

  • Prov 23:25
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    25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

  • Deut 28:41
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    41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

  • Luke 1:36
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    36 Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.

  • Rom 4:17-18
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    17 (As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.

    18 Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

  • Isa 66:7
    69%

    7 Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.

  • Isa 49:21
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    21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

  • Isa 66:9-10
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    69%

    9 Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

    10 Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:

  • Gen 25:22
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    22 And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.

  • Mark 13:17
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    17 And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

  • Rev 12:2
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    2 And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.

  • Gen 21:10
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    10 So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

  • Mic 5:3
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    3 And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

  • Hos 13:13
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    13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

  • Isa 26:17
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    17 As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

  • Isa 51:18
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    18 She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.

  • Gal 4:7
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    7 So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

  • Matt 24:19
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    19 But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.