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27 For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who bear no children! Break forth, and cry, you who do not travail! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.”

28 Therefore, brothers, we are like Isaac: children of the promise.

29 But just as at that time the one who was born after the flesh persecuted the one who was born after the Spirit, so also it is now.

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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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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:27 Isaiah 54:1