Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.
New American Standard Bible
But
King James Version
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Holman Bible
But the Jerusalem above
International Standard Version
But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our spiritual mother.
A Conservative Version
But the Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.
Amplified
But the Jerusalem above [that is, the way of faith, represented by Sarah] is free; she is our mother.
An Understandable Version
But the heavenly Jerusalem [Heb. 12:22] consists of free people, and is the mother of us [Christians].
Anderson New Testament
But Jerusalem which is above is free; and she is the mother of us all.
Bible in Basic English
But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.
Common New Testament
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but the heavenly Jerusalem is represented by the free-woman, who is the mother of us all.
Darby Translation
but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.
Goodspeed New Testament
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
John Wesley New Testament
But Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Julia Smith Translation
But Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.
King James 2000
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.
Modern King James verseion
But the Jerusalem from above is free, who is the mother of us all.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is the mother of us all.
Moffatt New Testament
But the Jerusalem on high is free, and she is 'our' mother.
Montgomery New Testament
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
NET Bible
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
New Heart English Bible
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
Noyes New Testament
but the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
Sawyer New Testament
But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us;
The Emphasized Bible
But, the Jerusalem above, is free, - the which is our mother;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she it is who is our mother.
Webster
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Weymouth New Testament
But the Jerusalem which is above is free, and *she* is *our* mother.
Williams New Testament
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
World English Bible
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Worrell New Testament
But the Jerusalem which is above is free, which, indeed, is our mother;
Worsley New Testament
But the Jerusalem above is represented by the free-woman, which is the mother of us all.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,
Themes
Abraham » Sends hagar and ishmael away
Church of israel » A type of the church of Christ
Jerusalem » Illustrative » Of the church
Titles and names of the church » Heavenly of jerusalem
Woman » Illustrative » (gloriously arrayed,) of the church of Christ
Topics
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 36 Translations in Galatians 4:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hagar And Sarah Represent Two Covenants
25 Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother. 27 For 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
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,
Revelation 3:12
He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence 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 mine own new name.
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven of God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
Psalm 87:3-6
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah
Song of Songs 8:1-2
Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; Yea, and none would despise me.
Isaiah 2:2-3
And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
Isaiah 52:9
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for Jehovah hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 62:1-2
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.
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.
Isaiah 66:10
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her;
Hosea 2:2
Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
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.
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.
Joel 3:17
So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Micah 4:1-2
But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow unto it.
John 8:36
If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
Romans 6:18
and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
Galatians 4:22
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.
Galatians 5:1
For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
Philippians 3:20
For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Revelation 17:5
and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation 21:10-27
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.