Galatians 4:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ Yet [just] as at that time the child [of ordinary birth] born according to the flesh despised and persecuted him [who was born remarkably] according to [the promise and the working of] the [Holy] Spirit, so it is now also. [Gen. 21:9.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now.

Common English Bible

²⁹ But just as it was then, so it is now also: the one who was conceived the normal way harassed the one who was conceived by the Spirit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ But just as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ But as then he, that was born according to the flesh, persecuted him that was after the spirit; so also it is now.

Galatians 4:29 Cross References

Genesis 21:9

But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.

John 15:9

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.

John 3:5

Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.

Romans 8:1

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:13

for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Galatians 4:23

One, the child of the enslaved woman, was born according to the flesh; the other, the child of the free woman, was born through the promise.

Galatians 5:11

But my brothers and sisters, why am I still being persecuted if I am still preaching circumcision? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.