Cross references
Galatians 4:27
For it is written:
“Rejoice, O barren woman,
who bears no children;
break forth and cry aloud,
you who have never travailed;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband.”
- a Isaiah 54:1
Galatians 4:27 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 54:1–5 (27 votes) and Psalm 113:9 (15 votes). 28 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Genesis 17 to Revelation 12.
Which verses does Galatians 4:27 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Isaiah 54:1–527 votes
“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD. “Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep. …
- Psalm 113:915 votes
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
- Ruth 4:14–169 votes
Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer. May his name become famous in Israel. He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.” …
- 1 Samuel 2:56 votes
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- Ruth 1:11–134 votes
But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands? Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons, …
- 1 Timothy 5:54 votes
The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
- 2 Samuel 13:203 votes
Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
- Isaiah 49:213 votes
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”
Which verses point to Galatians 4:27?
The 10 strongest of 28.