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27 It says in the Bible:

‘Be happy, you woman who could not have any children!
    You have never known the pain of a child's birth.
    But now shout loudly because you are so happy!
Yes, be happy, because the lonely woman now has more children
    than the woman who has a husband.’[a]

28 You, my Christian friends, are like Sarah's son, Isaac. Like him, you became God's children as a result of God's promise. 29 Isaac was born because of God's Spirit. The son who was born in the human way gave much trouble to Isaac at that time. You who are believers receive the same kind of trouble now.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:27 See Isaiah 54:1.