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Galatians 4:27
“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.”
Verse in context — Galatians 4
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.
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But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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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.
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Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
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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.
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