Galatians 4:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

But he which was of the seruant, was borne after the flesh: and he which was of the free woman, was borne by promes.

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  • Heb 11:11 : 11 Through faith Sara also receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a childe when she was past age, because she iudged him faithfull which had promised.
  • Gen 18:10-14 : 10 And he saide, I will certainely come againe vnto thee according to ye time of life: and loe, Sarah thy wife shall haue a sonne; Sarah heard in the tent doore, which was behinde him. 11 (Nowe Abraham and Sarah were old and striken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after the maner of women) 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within her selfe, saying, After I am waxed olde, and my lord also, shall I haue lust? 13 And ye Lord saide vnto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah thus laugh, saying, Shall I certainely beare a childe, which am olde? 14 (Shall any thing be hard to the Lord? at the time appointed will I returne vnto thee, euen according to the time of life, and Sarah shall haue a sonne.)
  • Gen 21:1-2 : 1 Nowe the Lord visited Sarah, as he had saide, and did vnto her according as he had promised. 2 For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, at the same season that God tolde him.
  • Rom 9:7-8 : 7 Neither are they all children, because they are the seede of Abraham: but, In Isaac shall thy seede be called: 8 That is, they which are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God: but the children of the promes, are counted for the seede.
  • Rom 10:8 : 8 But what sayth it? The worde is neere thee, euen in thy mouth, and in thine heart. This is the worde of faith which we preach.
  • Gal 4:28-29 : 28 Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promes. 29 But as then hee that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit, euen so it is nowe.
  • Rom 4:18-21 : 18 Which Abraham aboue hope, beleeued vnder hope, that he should be the father of many nations: according to that which was spoken to him, So shall thy seede be. 19 And he not weake in the faith, considered not his owne bodie, which was nowe dead, being almost an hundreth yeere olde, neither the deadnes of Saraes wombe. 20 Neither did he doubt of the promise of God through vnbeliefe, but was strengthened in the faith, and gaue glorie to God, 21 Being fully assured that he which had promised, was also able to doe it.
  • Gen 17:15-19 : 15 Afterward God said vnto Abraham, Sarai thy wife shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sarah shalbe her name. 16 And I will blesse her, & will also giue thee a sonne of her, yea, I will blesse her, and she shall be the mother of nations: Kings also of people shall come of her. 17 Then Abraham fell vpon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a childe be borne vnto him, that is an hundreth yeere olde? and shall Sarah that is ninetie yeere olde beare? 18 And Abraham saide vnto God, Oh, that Ishmael might liue in thy sight. 19 Then God saide, Sarah thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, and thou shalt call his name Izhak: and I will establish my couenant with him for an euerlasting couenant, and with his seede after him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 4:21-22
    2 verses
    90%

    21Tell me, ye that will be vnder the Law, doe ye not heare the Lawe?

    22For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, one by a seruant, and one by a free woman.

  • Gal 4:24-31
    8 verses
    85%

    24By the which things another thing is ment: for these mothers are the two testaments, the one which is Agar of mount Sina, which gendreth vnto bondage.

    25(For Agar or Sina is a mountaine in Arabia, and it answereth to Hierusalem which nowe is) and she is in bondage with her children.

    26But Hierusalem, which is aboue, is free: which is the mother of vs all.

    27For it is written, Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children: breake forth, & cry, thou that trauailest not: for the desolate hath many moe children, then she which hath an husband.

    28Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promes.

    29But as then hee that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit, euen so it is nowe.

    30But what sayth the Scripture? Put out the seruant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.

    31Then brethren, we are not children of the seruant, but of the free woman.

  • Gen 21:12-13
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    75%

    12But God said vnto Abraham, Let it not be grieuous in thy sight for the childe, and for thy bonde woman: in all that Sarah shall say vnto thee, heare her voyce: for in Izhak shall thy seede be called.

    13As for the sonne of the bond woman, I will make him a nation also, because he is thy seede.

  • Rom 9:7-10
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    75%

    7Neither are they all children, because they are the seede of Abraham: but, In Isaac shall thy seede be called:

    8That is, they which are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God: but the children of the promes, are counted for the seede.

    9For this is a worde of promes, In this same time wil I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.

    10Neither he onely felt this, but also Rebecca when shee had conceiued by one, euen by our father Isaac.

  • Gen 21:10
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    10Wherefore she saide vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman and her sonne: for ye sonne of this bonde woman shall not be heire with my sonne Izhak.

  • Gen 25:12
    73%

    12Nowe these are the generations of Ishmael Abrahams sonne, whome Hagar the Egyptian Sarahs handmayde bare vnto Abraham.

  • Gal 3:14-18
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    14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Iesus, that wee might receiue the promes of the Spirite through faith.

    15Brethren, I speake as men do: though it be but a mans couenant, when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate it, or addeth any thing thereto.

    16Nowe to Abraham and his seede were the promises made. Hee saith not, And to the seedes, as speaking of many: but, And to thy seede, as of one, which is Christ.

    17And this I say, that the couenant that was confirmed afore of God in respect of Christ, the Lawe which was foure hundreth and thirtie yeeres after, can not disanull, that it shoulde make the promise of none effect.

    18For if the inheritance be of the Lawe, it is no more by the promise, but God gaue it freely vnto Abraham by promise.

  • Gal 3:29
    71%

    29And if ye be Christes, then are ye Abrahams seede, and heires by promes.

  • Rom 4:16
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    16Therefore it is by faith, that it might come by grace, and the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Lawe: but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,

  • Gen 15:3-4
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    3Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire.

    4Then beholde, the worde of the Lorde came vnto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heire, but one that shall come out of thine owne bowels, he shalbe thine heire.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18(To whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seede be called.)

  • Rom 4:12-13
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    12And the father of circumcision, not vnto them onely which are of the circumcision, but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had when he was vncircumcised.

    13For the promise that he should be the heire of the worlde, was not giuen to Abraham, or to his seede, through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.

  • Rom 4:1
    70%

    1What shal we say then, that Abraham our father hath found concerning the flesh?

  • Gal 4:1-4
    4 verses
    70%

    1Then I say, that the heire as long as hee is a childe, differeth nothing fro a seruant, though he be Lord of all,

    2But is vnder tutours and gouernours, vntil the time appointed of the Father.

    3Euen so, we when wee were children, were in bondage vnder the rudiments of the world.

    4But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe,

  • Gal 4:7
    69%

    7Wherefore, thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne: now if thou be a sone, thou art also the heire of God through Christ.

  • Gal 3:7
    69%

    7Knowe ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

  • Gen 16:1
    68%

    1Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar by name.

  • Gen 25:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23And the Lord sayd to her, Two nations are in thy wombe, and two maner of people shalbe diuided out of thy bowels, and the one people shall be mightier then the other, and the elder shall serue the yonger.

    24Therefore when her time of deliuerance was fulfilled, behold, twinnes were in her wombe.

  • 1 Chr 1:28
    68%

    28The sonnes of Abraham were Izhak, and Ishmael.

  • John 1:13
    68%

    13Which are borne not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of ye wil of man, but of God.

  • John 3:6
    68%

    6That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh: and that that is borne of the Spirit, is spirit.

  • Acts 7:6
    68%

    6But God spake thus, that his seede should be a soiourner in a strange land: and that they should keepe it in bondage, and entreate it euill foure hundreth yeeres.

  • Gen 21:2
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    2For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, at the same season that God tolde him.

  • Gen 17:23
    68%

    23Then Abraham tooke Ishmael his sonne and all that were borne in his house, and all that was bought with his money, that is, euery man childe among the men of Abrahams house, and he circumcised the foreskinne of their flesh in that selfe same day, as God had comaunded him.

  • Gen 17:13
    67%

    13He that is borne in thine house, & he that is bought with thy money, must needes be circumcised: so my couenant shall be in your flesh for an euerlasting couenant.

  • John 8:36
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    36If that Sonne therefore shal make you free, ye shalbe free in deede.

  • Gen 16:4
    67%

    4And he went in vnto Hagar, & she conceiued; when she sawe that she had conceiued, her dame was despised in her eyes.