Galatians 4:24

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Galatians 4:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible

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

23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

24 These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

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Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”

Hosea 11:10

They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.

Matthew 13:35

So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

1 Corinthians 10:11

Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

Hebrews 11:19

Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.

Galatians 4:25

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

Luke 22:19

And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

Luke 22:20

In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.

1 Corinthians 10:4

and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

Galatians 3:15

Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.

Galatians 3:16

The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

Galatians 3:17

What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.

Galatians 3:18

For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

Galatians 3:19

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

Galatians 3:20

A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one party; but God is one.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.

Hebrews 7:22

Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

Hebrews 8:6

Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.

Hebrews 8:7

For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.

Hebrews 8:8

But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

Hebrews 8:9

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.

Hebrews 8:10

For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Hebrews 8:11

No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.

Hebrews 8:12

For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

Hebrews 8:13

By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Hebrews 9:15

Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Hebrews 9:16

In the case of a will, it is necessary to establish the death of the one who made it,

Hebrews 9:17

because a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.

Hebrews 9:18

That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

Hebrews 9:19

For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

Hebrews 9:20

saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”

Hebrews 9:21

In the same way, he sprinkled with blood the tabernacle and all the vessels used in worship.

Hebrews 9:22

According to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Hebrews 9:23

So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.

Hebrews 10:15

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:

Hebrews 10:16

“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

Hebrews 10:17

Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

Hebrews 10:18

And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.

Hebrews 12:24

to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

Galatians 5:1

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Genesis 16:3

So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

Genesis 16:4

And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

Genesis 16:8

“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

Genesis 16:15

And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

Genesis 16:16

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

Genesis 21:9

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

Genesis 21:10

and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

Genesis 21:11

Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

Genesis 21:12

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

Genesis 21:13

But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”

Genesis 25:12

This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.