Galatians 4:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

but he who `is' of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who `is' of the free-woman, through the promise;

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  • Heb 11:11 : 11 By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;
  • Gen 18:10-14 : 10 and he saith, `returning I return unto thee, about the time of life, and lo, to Sarah thy wife a son.' 11 And Sarah is hearkening at the opening of the tent, which is behind him; 12 and Abraham and Sarah `are' aged, entering into days -- the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah; 13 and Sarah laugheth in her heart, saying, `After I have waxed old I have had pleasure! -- my lord also `is' old!' 14 And Jehovah saith unto Abraham, `Why `is' this? Sarah hath laughed, saying, Is it true really -- I bear -- and I am aged? Is any thing too wonderful for Jehovah? at the appointed time I return unto thee, about the time of life, and Sarah hath a son.'
  • Gen 21:1-2 : 1 And Jehovah hath looked after Sarah as He hath said, and Jehovah doth to Sarah as He hath spoken; 2 and Sarah conceiveth, and beareth a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God hath spoken of with him;
  • Rom 9:7-8 : 7 nor because they are seed of Abraham `are' all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' 8 that is, the children of the flesh -- these `are' not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;
  • Rom 10:8 : 8 But what doth it say? `Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;
  • Gal 4:28-29 : 28 And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise, 29 but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;
  • Rom 4:18-21 : 18 Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: `So shall thy seed be;' 19 and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb, 20 and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God, 21 and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:
  • Gen 17:15-19 : 15 And God saith unto Abraham, `Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah `is' her name; 16 and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.' 17 And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?' 18 And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;' 19 and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

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  • Gal 4:21-22
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    21Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

    22for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

  • Gal 4:24-31
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    24which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;

    25for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now `is', and is in servitude with her children,

    26and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,

    27for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many `are' the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'

    28And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

    29but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

    30but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'

    31then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

  • Gen 21:12-13
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    12and God saith unto Abraham, `Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee -- hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee.

    13As to the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he `is' thy seed.'

  • Rom 9:7-10
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    7nor because they are seed of Abraham `are' all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

    8that is, the children of the flesh -- these `are' not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

    9for the word of promise `is' this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

    10And not only `so', but also Rebecca, having conceived by one -- Isaac our father --

  • Gen 21:10
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    10and she saith to Abraham, `Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid hath no possession with my son -- with Isaac.'

  • Gen 25:12
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    12And these `are' births of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, hath borne to Abraham;

  • Gal 3:14-18
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    14that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

    15Brethren, as a man I say `it', even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

    16and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

    17and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

    18for if by law `be' the inheritance, `it is' no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant `it'.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29and if ye `are' of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.

  • Rom 4:16
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    16Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,

  • Gen 15:3-4
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    3And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'

    4And lo, the word of Jehovah `is' unto him, saying, `This `one' doth not heir thee; but he who cometh out from thy bowels, he doth heir thee;'

  • Heb 11:18
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    18of whom it was said -- `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

  • Rom 4:12-13
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    12and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that `is' in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

    13For not through law `is' the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

  • Rom 4:1
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    1What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

  • Gal 4:1-4
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    1And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,

    2but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,

    3so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

    4and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

  • Gal 4:7
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    7so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

  • Gal 3:7
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    7know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,

  • Gen 16:1
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    1And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name `is' Hagar;

  • Gen 25:23-24
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    23And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations `are' in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the `one' people than the `other' people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'

    24And her days to bear are fulfilled, and lo, twins `are' in her womb;

  • 1 Chr 1:28
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    28Sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

  • John 1:13
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    13who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.

  • John 3:6
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    6that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

  • Acts 7:6
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    6`And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,

  • Gen 21:2
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    2and Sarah conceiveth, and beareth a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God hath spoken of with him;

  • Gen 17:23
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    23And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money -- every male among the men of Abraham's house -- and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.

  • Gen 17:13
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    13he is certainly circumcised who `is' born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;

  • John 8:36
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    36if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

  • Gen 16:4
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    4and he goeth in unto Hagar, and she conceiveth, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and her mistress is lightly esteemed in her eyes.