Galatians 4:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But what does the scripture say? “Drive out the enslaved woman and her child, for the child of the enslaved woman will not share the inheritance with the child of the free woman.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But what does the Scripture say? Cast out and send away the slave woman and her son, for never shall the son of the slave woman be heir and share the inheritance with the son of the free woman. [Gen. 21:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.

Common English Bible

But what does the scripture say? “Throw out the slave woman and her son, because the slave woman’s son won’t share the inheritance with the free woman’s son”.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And what does Scripture say? "Cast out the woman servant and her son. For the son of a servant women shall not be an heir with the son of a free woman."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.

Galatians 4:30 Cross References

John 8:35

The slave does not have a permanent place in the household; the son has a place there forever.

Romans 11:2

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

Romans 4:3

For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”

Galatians 3:22

But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through the faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Galatians 3:8

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would reckon as righteous the gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the gentiles shall be blessed in you.”

Galatians 4:22

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by an enslaved woman and the other by a free woman.

Galatians 4:31

So then, brothers and sisters, we are children, not of an enslaved woman but of the free woman.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell in us desire envy?