Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she 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.
American Standard Version
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.
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.
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
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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 that is, Hagar (and Hagar means Mount Sinai, in Arabia) and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For the Scripture says: "Rejoice, you childless woman, who never bore a child; break forth into shouting, you who feel no birth pangs; for the desolate woman has many children, even more than the married one."
Cross References
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion, even to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless hosts of angels,
Revelation 3:12
I will make him who conquers a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall never again go out of it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride to join her husband.
John 8:36
So if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.
Romans 6:14
For sin must not any longer exert its mastery over you, for now you are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor.
Romans 6:18
and since you have been freed from sin, you have become the slaves of right-doing.
Galatians 4:22
For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave girl, the other by a free woman.
Galatians 5:1
This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.
Philippians 3:20
But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Revelation 17:5
On her forehead was written a name with a symbolical meaning, "Mighty Babylon, the mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations."
Revelation 21:10-27
So he carried me off under the power of the Spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God;
1 Peter 2:16
Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God.