Galatians 4:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:9 : 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.
  • Gal 5:11 : 11 But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.
  • Gal 6:12-14 : 12 Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ. 13 Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh. 14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.
  • 1 Thess 2:14-15 : 14 For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews; 15 Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;
  • Heb 10:33-34 : 33 In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way. 34 For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.
  • Matt 23:34-37 : 34 For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town; 35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
  • John 3:5 : 5 Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.
  • John 15:9 : 9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.
  • Rom 8:1 : 1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.
  • Gal 4:23 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 4:30-31
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    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.

  • Gal 4:27-28
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    27 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.

    28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

  • Gal 4:22-25
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    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.

  • 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--

  • Gen 21:9-10
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    9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

    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.

  • John 3:6
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    6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

  • Rom 8:4-5
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    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

    5 For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18 Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

  • Rom 9:12-13
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    12 It was said to her, The older will be the servant of the younger.

    13 Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

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

  • Rom 4:1
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    1 What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?

  • Gal 4:1
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    1 But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

  • Rev 12:13
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    13 And when the dragon saw that he was forced down to the earth, he made cruel attacks on the woman who gave birth to the male child.

  • Rom 8:14
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    14 And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

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

  • 2 Cor 4:9
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    9 We are cruelly attacked, but not without hope; we are made low, but we are not without help;

  • Gal 4:3
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    3 So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

  • 1 Cor 15:46
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    46 But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit.

  • Jas 4:5
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    5 Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

  • Gal 3:3-4
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    3 Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?

    4 Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.

  • Gen 25:12
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    12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah:

  • 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.

  • Gen 21:12-13
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    12 But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

    13 And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34 And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

  • John 1:13
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    13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

  • John 8:41
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    41 You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12 Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

  • John 8:37
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    37 I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

  • Heb 12:17
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    17 For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

  • Job 19:28
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    28 If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

  • Gal 4:19
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    19 My children, of whom I am again in birth-pains till Christ is formed in you,

  • 1 Cor 4:12
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    12 And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

  • Gal 3:7
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    7 Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

  • 1 Thess 2:14
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    14 For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;