Galatians 4:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Now Hagar is (stands for) Mount Sinai in Arabia and she corresponds to and belongs in the same category with the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage together with her children.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and she corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because the city is in slavery with her children.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, which is related to the Jerusalem of the present time, and it serves with her sons.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Galatians 4:25 Cross References

Psalm 68:17

With mighty chariotry, twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands, the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place.

Psalm 68:8

the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain at the presence of God, the God of Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

Luke 13:34

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

Luke 19:44

They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

Acts 1:11

They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

Galatians 1:17

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were already apostles before me, but I went away at once into Arabia, and afterward I returned to Damascus.

Galatians 4:24

Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One woman, in fact, is Hagar, from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery.

Galatians 4:26

But the other woman corresponds to the Jerusalem above; she is free, and she is our mother.

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said, “The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran. With him were myriads of holy ones, at his right, a host of his own.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,

Judges 5:5

The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai, before the Lord, the God of Israel.