Galatians 4:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Galatians 4:26 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 12:22
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Micah 4:1-2
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. …
Philippians 3:20
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
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 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-31)

In these verses the apostle illustrates the difference between believers who rested in Christ only and those judaizers who trusted in the law, by a comparison taken from the story of Isaac and Ishmael. This he introduces in such a manner as was proper to strike and impress their minds, and to convince them of their great weakness in departing from the truth, and suffering themselves to be deprived…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

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--(He 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 bef…