Galatians 4:26
Good News Translation
But the heavenly Jerusalem is free, and she is our mother.

New Revised Standard Version
But the other woman corresponds to the Jerusalem above; she is free, and she is our mother.

Contemporary English Version
But our mother is the city of Jerusalem in heaven above, and she isn't a slave.

New American Bible
But the Jerusalem above is freeborn, and she is our mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother.

Jerusalem.

Psalm 87:3-6 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God. . . .

Isaiah 2:2,3 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. . . .

Isaiah 52:9 Rejoice, and give praise together, O ye deserts of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

Isaiah 62:1,2 For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth as brightness, and her saviour be lighted as a lamp. . . .

Isaiah 65:18 But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these things, which I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the people thereof joy.

Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her.

Joel 3:17 And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Sion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall pass through it no more.

Micah 4:1,2 Therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests. . . .

Philippians 3:20 But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 12:22 But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

Revelation 3:12 He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God: and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

Revelation 21:2,10-27 And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. . . .

free.

Galatians 4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman.

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

John 8:36 If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

Romans 6:14,18 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace. . . .

1 Peter 2:16 As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

mother.

Songs 8:1,2 Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me? . . .

Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

Hosea 2:2,5 Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts. . . .

Hosea 4:5 And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.

Revelation 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery: Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the earth.

Context
Hagar and Sarah
25For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children. 26But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother. 27For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry thou that travailest not: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.…
Cross References
Galatians 4:25
For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.

Hebrews 12:22
But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

Revelation 3:12
He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God: and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

Revelation 12:1
And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

Revelation 21:2
And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:10
And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

Galatians 4:25
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