Galatians 4:30

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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Referenced Verses

  • John 8:35 : 35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
  • Rom 8:15-17 : 15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
  • Rom 11:2 : 2 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
  • Rom 11:7-9 : 7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. 8 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day." 9 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always." 11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
  • Gal 3:8 : 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
  • Rom 4:3 : 3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
  • Gen 21:10-12 : 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." 11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son. 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.

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  • Gal 4:31
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    31So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

  • Gen 21:9-13
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    86%

    9Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

    10Therefore 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."

    11The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

    12God 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.

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

  • Gal 4:21-29
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    86%

    21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

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

    23However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

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

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

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

    27For 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."

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

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

  • Gal 4:5-7
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    5that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

    6And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"

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

  • Gal 4:1-3
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    74%

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

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

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

  • John 8:35-36
    2 verses
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    35A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

    36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

  • Gal 5:1
    71%

    1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

  • Rom 9:7-8
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    7Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

    8That 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.

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

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

    4Behold, 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."

  • Acts 7:6
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    6God 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.

  • Gal 3:28-29
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    28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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

  • Gen 16:6
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    6But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

  • Rom 9:12
    69%

    12it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

  • Gen 15:13
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    13He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

  • Rom 8:15
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    15For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

  • Gal 3:15
    68%

    15Brothers, 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.

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

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

    7Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."

  • Exod 21:4
    68%

    4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

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

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

  • Rom 4:1
    68%

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

  • Rom 4:16
    67%

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

  • Gen 16:8
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    8He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

  • Rom 4:14
    67%

    14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

  • Lev 25:46
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    46You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.