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27 For it is written,

“Rejoice, you barren woman
    who never bore a child;
break forth in song and shout with joy,
    you who never were in labor.
For more numerous are the children of the deserted wife
    than the children of the one who has a husband.”

28 Now you, brethren, are, like Isaac, the children of the promise. 29 But just as in those days the child who was born through the flesh persecuted the child who was born through the Spirit, so is it now also.

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