Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

English Standard Version
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

New American Standard Bible
But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.

King James Bible
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

International Standard Version
But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our spiritual mother.

American Standard Version
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But that Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is our mother.

Darby Bible Translation
but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

Young's Literal Translation
and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,

Cross References

Galatians 4:25
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Hebrews 12:22
But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Revelation 3:12
Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write on him my new name.

Revelation 12:1
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars:

Revelation 21:2
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:10
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:21-27 The difference between believers who rested in Christ only, and those who trusted in the law, is explained by the histories of Isaac and Ishmael. These things are an allegory, wherein, beside the literal and historical sense of the words, the Spirit of God points out something further. Hagar and Sarah were apt emblems of the two different dispensations of the covenant. The heavenly Jerusalem, the true church from above, represented by Sarah, is in a state of freedom, and is the mother of all believers, who are born of the Holy Spirit. They were by regeneration and true faith, made a part of the true seed of Abraham, according to the promise made to him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

26. This verse stands instead of the sentence which we should expect, to correspond to Ga 4:24, "One from Mount Sinai," namely, the other covenant from the heavenly mount above, which is (answers in the allegory to) Sarah.

Jerusalem … above—(Heb 12:22), "the heavenly Jerusalem." "New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God" (Re 3:12; 21:2). Here "the Messianic theocracy, which before Christ's second appearing is the Church, and after it, Christ's kingdom of glory" [Meyer].

free—as Sarah was; opposed to "she is in bondage" (Ga 4:25).

all—omitted in many of the oldest manuscripts, though supported by some. "Mother of us," namely, believers who are already members of the invisible Church, the heavenly Jerusalem, hereafter to be manifested (Heb 12:22).