Galatians 4:23

World English Bible (2000)

However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

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  • Heb 11:11 : 11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
  • Gen 18:10-14 : 10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?' 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
  • Gen 21:1-2 : 1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
  • Rom 9:7-8 : 7 Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called." 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.
  • Rom 10:8 : 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
  • Gal 4:28-29 : 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
  • Rom 4:18-21 : 18 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be." 19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. 20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
  • Gen 17:15-19 : 15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her." 17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?" 18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!" 19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

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  • Gal 4:21-22
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    21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

    22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

  • Gal 4:24-31
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    85%

    24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

    25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

    26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

    27 For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

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

    29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

    30 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."

    31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

  • Gen 21:12-13
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    12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

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

  • Rom 9:7-10
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    7 Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

    8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

    9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

    10 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

  • Gen 21:10
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    10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

  • Gen 25:12
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    12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

  • Gal 3:14-18
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    14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

    15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

    16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

    17 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

    18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

  • Rom 4:16
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    16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

  • Gen 15:3-4
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    3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

    4 Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."

  • Heb 11:18
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    18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Rom 4:12-13
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    12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

    13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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

  • Gal 4:1-4
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    1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

    2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

    3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

    4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

  • Gal 4:7
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    7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

  • Gal 3:7
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    7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

  • Gen 16:1
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    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

  • Gen 25:23-24
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    23 Yahweh said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger."

    24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

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

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

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

  • Acts 7:6
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    6 God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

  • Gen 21:2
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    2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • Gen 17:23
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    23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

  • Gen 17:13
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    13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

  • John 8:36
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    36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

  • Gen 16:4
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    4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.