Galatians 4:24

New Century Version

This story teaches something else: The two women are like the two agreements between God and his people. One agreement is the law that God made on Mount Sinai, and the people who are under this agreement are like slaves. The mother named Hagar is like that agreement.

Cross References

Genesis 16:8

The angel said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?” Hagar answered, “I am running away from my mistress Sarai.”

Genesis 25:12

This is the family history of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. (Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian servant, was Ishmael’s mother.)

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! The people are saying about me, ‘He is only telling stories.’ ”

Hosea 11:10

They will go after the Lord, and he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will hurry to him from the west.

Matthew 13:35

This is as the prophet said: “I will speak using stories; I will tell things that have been secret since the world was made.”

Romans 8:15

The Spirit we received does not make us slaves again to fear; it makes us children of God. With that Spirit we cry out, “Father.”

1 Corinthians 10:11

The things that happened to those people are examples. They were written down to teach us, because we live in a time when all these things of the past have reached their goal.

1 Corinthians 10:4

and all drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.

Galatians 4:25

She is like Mount Sinai in Arabia and is a picture of the earthly city of Jerusalem. This city and its people are slaves to the law.

Galatians 4:3

It is the same for us. We were once like children, slaves to the useless rules of this world.

Galatians 5:1

We have freedom now, because Christ made us free. So stand strong. Do not change and go back into the slavery of the law.

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said: “The Lord came from Mount Sinai and rose like the sun from Edom; he showed his greatness from Mount Paran. He came with thousands of angels from the southern mountains.

Hebrews 11:19

Abraham believed that God could raise the dead, and really, it was as if Abraham got Isaac back from death.

Hebrews 12:24

You have come to Jesus, the One who brought the new agreement from God to his people, and you have come to the sprinkled blood that has a better message than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

I pray that the God of peace will give you every good thing you need so you can do what he wants. God raised from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep, because of the blood of his death. His blood began the eternal agreement that God made with his people. I pray that God will do in us what pleases him, through Jesus Christ, and to him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Hebrews 7:22

This means that Jesus is the guarantee of a better agreement from God to his people.