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26 But Abraham's wife, Sarah, is a picture of the new Jerusalem that is above. Sarah was a free person, not a slave, and she is like our mother. 27 It says in the Bible:

‘Be happy, you woman who could not have any children!
    You have never known the pain of a child's birth.
    But now shout loudly because you are so happy!
Yes, be happy, because the lonely woman now has more children
    than the woman who has a husband.’[a]

28 You, my Christian friends, are like Sarah's son, Isaac. Like him, you became God's children as a result of God's promise.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:27 See Isaiah 54:1.