Cross references

Galatians 4:24

These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

Galatians 4:24 BSB

Galatians 4:24 has 23 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 21:9–13 (6 votes) and Genesis 16:8 (4 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 16 to 1 Peter 3.

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Which verses does Galatians 4:24 point to?

The 20 strongest of 23, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son, and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!” …

  2. “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

  3. And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

  4. This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.

  5. They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.

  6. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

  7. Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

  8. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says: “This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.” …

  9. to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

  10. So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife. And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

  11. He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

  12. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

  13. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

  14. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.

Which verses point to Galatians 4:24?

The 10 strongest of 17.