Galatians 4:27-29

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²⁷For it is written,

“Rejoice, you childless one, you who bear no children,
burst into song and shout, you who endure no birth pangs;
for the children of the desolate woman are more numerous
than the children of the one who is married.”

²⁸Now you,^[a] my friends,^[b] are children of the promise, like Isaac. ²⁹But 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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Galatians 4:28 Other ancient authorities read we
Galatians 4:28 Gk brothers

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