Galatians 4:24

Weymouth NT

All this is allegorical; for the women represent two Covenants. One has its origin on Mount Sinai, and bears children destined for slavery.

Cross References

Matthew 13:35

in fulfilment of the saying of the Prophet, »I will open my mouth in figurative language, I will utter things kept hidden since the creation of all things.«

Romans 8:15

You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being –a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons– a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, »Abba! our Father!«

1 Corinthians 10:11

All this kept happening to them with a figurative meaning; but it was put on record by way of admonition to us upon whom the ends of the Ages have come.

1 Corinthians 10:4

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they long drank the water that flowed from the spiritual rock that went with them–and that rock was the Christ.

Galatians 4:25

This is Hagar; for the name Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, which is in bondage together with her children.

Galatians 4:3

So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.

Galatians 5:1

Christ having made us gloriously free–stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.

Hebrews 11:19

For he reckoned that God is even able to raise a man up from among the dead, and, figuratively speaking, it was from among the dead that he received Isaac again.

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus the negotiator of a new Covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks in more gracious tones than that of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

Now may God who gives peace, and brought Jesus, our Lord, up again from among the dead –even Him who, by virtue of the blood of the eternal Covenant, is the great Shepherd of the sheep–

Hebrews 7:22

so much the more also is the Covenant of which Jesus has become the guarantor, a better covenant.