Galatians 4:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁶ But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ But the Jerusalem above (the Messianic kingdom of Christ) is free, and she is our mother.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.

Common English Bible

²⁶ But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ But that Jerusalem which is above is free; the same is our mother.

Galatians 4:26 Cross References

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother's bill of divorce, with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.

Isaiah 52:9

Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

Isaiah 65:18

But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

Isaiah 66:10

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her;

Hosea 2:2

“Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;

Hosea 2:5

For their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

Hosea 4:5

You shall stumble by day, the prophet also shall stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your mother.

Joel 3:17

“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall never again pass through it.

John 8:36

So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

Romans 6:14

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:18

and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

Galatians 4:22

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman.

Galatians 4:25

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

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Philippians 3:20

But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,

1 Peter 2:16

Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.

Revelation 12:1

And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;

Revelation 17:5

and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations.”

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;

Revelation 3:12

He who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.