Devine Scripture

Galatians 4:26

Galatians chapter 4 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.

Context

v.25Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.

v.26This passage

v.27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hosea 4:5

    And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.

  • Isaiah 62:1

    For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth.

  • Hosea 2:5

    for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

  • Isaiah 65:18

    But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

  • Romans 6:18

    and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

  • Hebrews 12:22

    but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,