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27 For it is written,

(A)“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
    break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labour!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
    than those of the one who has a husband.”

28 Now you,[a] brothers, (B)like Isaac, (C)are children of promise. 29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh (D)persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, (E)so also it is now.

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  1. Galatians 4:28 Some manuscripts we

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.”[a](A)

28 Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.(B) 29 At that time the son born according to the flesh(C) persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit.(D) It is the same now.

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  1. Galatians 4:27 Isaiah 54:1