Galatians 4:24

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

This story may be taken as an allegory. The women stand for two Covenants. One Covenant, given from Mount Sinai, produces a race of slaves and is represented by Hagar

Cross References

Matthew 13:35

in fulfillment of these words in the Prophet--'I will speak to them in parables; I will utter things kept secret since the foundation of the world.'

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a son which leads us to cry 'Abba, Our Father.'

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come.

1 Corinthians 10:4

and all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the Christ.

Galatians 4:25

(The word Hagar meaning in Arabia Mount Sinai) and it ranks with the Jerusalem of to-day, for she and her children are in slavery.

Galatians 4:3

And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;

Galatians 5:1

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.

Hebrews 11:19

For he argued that God was able even to raise a man from the dead--and indeed, figuratively speaking, Abraham did receive Isaac back from the dead.

Hebrews 12:24

to Jesus, the intermediary of a new Covenant, and to the Sprinkled Blood that tells of better things than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

May God, the source of all peace, who brought back from the dead him who, 'by virtue of the blood that rendered valid the unchangeable Covenant, is the Great Shepherd of God's Sheep,' Jesus, our Lord--

Hebrews 7:22

And the oath shows the corresponding superiority of the Covenant of which Jesus is appointed the surety.