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27 For 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.’

28 Now you,[a] my friends,[b] are children of the promise, like Isaac. 29 But 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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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:28 Other ancient authorities read we
  2. Galatians 4:28 Gk brothers

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