Parallel Bible results for "Galatians 4:26-31"

Galatians 4:26-31

Good News Translation GNT

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

27 For the scripture says, "Be happy, you childless woman! Shout and cry with joy, you who never felt the pains of childbirth! For the woman who was deserted will have more children than the woman whose husband never left her."

28 Now, you, my friends, are God's children as a result of his promise, just as Isaac was.

29 At that time the son who was born in the usual way persecuted the one who was born because of God's Spirit; and it is the same now.

30 But what does the scripture say? It says, "Send the slave woman and her son away; for the son of the slave woman will not have a part of the father's property along with the son of the free woman."

31 So then, my friends, we are not the children of a slave woman but of a free woman.

New International Version NIV

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

27 For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

28 Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.

29 At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now.

30 But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.