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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Galatians 4:25 Catholic Bible: Hagar, who stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, is a figure of the present city of Jerusalem, in slavery with all its people. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/galatians/4-25.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/galatians/4-25.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/galatians/4-25.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/galatians/1.htm">Galatians</a> > <a href="/gntd/galatians/4.htm">Chapter 4</a> > Verse 25</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../galatians/4-24.htm" title="Galatians 4:24">◄</a> Galatians 4:25 <a href="../galatians/4-26.htm" title="Galatians 4:26">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/galatians/4.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/galatians/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Hagar, who stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, is a figure of the present city of Jerusalem, in slavery with all its people. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/galatians/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/galatians/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Hagar also stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and for the present city of Jerusalem. She and her children are slaves. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/galatians/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Hagar represents Sinai, a mountain in Arabia; it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/galatians/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.</p><p class="hdg">is.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/4-24.htm">Galatians 4:24</a> Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is Agar.</p><p class="hdg">Sinai.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/33-2.htm">Deuteronomy 33:2</a> And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a fiery law.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../judges/5-5.htm">Judges 5:5</a> The mountains melted before the face of the Lord, and Sinai before the face of the Lord the God of Israel.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/68-8.htm">Psalm 68:8,17</a> The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/12-18.htm">Hebrews 12:18</a> For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched and a burning fire and a whirlwind and darkness and storm,</p><p class="hdg">Arabia.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/1-17.htm">Galatians 1:17</a> Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the apostles who were before me: but I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/1-11.htm">Acts 1:11</a> Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come as you have seen him going into heaven.</p><p class="hdg">answereth to.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37</a> Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/13-34.htm">Luke 13:34</a> Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets; and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/19-44.htm">Luke 19:44</a> And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/galatians/4.htm">Hagar and Sarah</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">24</span>Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is Agar. <span class="reftext">25</span><span class="highl">For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.</span> <span class="reftext">26</span>But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../galatians/4-24.htm">Galatians 4:24</a></span><br />Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is Agar.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../galatians/4-26.htm">Galatians 4:26</a></span><br />But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Agar</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/4-13.htm">Answers</a> <a href="/galatians/1-17.htm">Arabia</a> <a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Bondage</a> <a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Children</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-32.htm">City</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-15.htm">Correspond</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-31.htm">Exists</a> <a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Hagar</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/4-4.htm">Image</a> <a href="/galatians/2-1.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Mount</a> <a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Mountain</a> <a href="/galatians/4-20.htm">Present</a> <a href="/galatians/4-23.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Servitude</a> <a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Sinai</a> <a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Slavery</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/16-9.htm">Stands</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/8-18.htm">Together</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Agar</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-10.htm">Answers</a> <a href="/1_kings/10-15.htm">Arabia</a> <a href="/galatians/5-1.htm">Bondage</a> <a href="/galatians/4-27.htm">Children</a> <a href="/titus/1-5.htm">City</a> <a href="/james/2-14.htm">Correspond</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-15.htm">Exists</a> <a href="/genesis/16-1.htm">Hagar</a> <a href="/philippians/3-21.htm">Image</a> <a href="/galatians/4-26.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/hebrews/8-5.htm">Mount</a> <a href="/hebrews/8-5.htm">Mountain</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-21.htm">Present</a> <a href="/galatians/4-30.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/galatians/5-1.htm">Servitude</a> <a href="/exodus/16-1.htm">Sinai</a> <a href="/galatians/5-1.htm">Slavery</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-19.htm">Stands</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-10.htm">Together</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/galatians/4-25.htm">Galatians 4:25 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/galatians/4-25.htm">Galatians 4:25 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/galatians/4-25.htm">Galatians 4:25 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/galatians/4-25.htm">Galatians 4:25 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/galatians/4-25.htm">Galatians 4:25 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/galatians/4-25.htm">Galatians 4:25 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/galatians/4-25.htm">Galatians 4:25 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/galatians/4-25.htm">Galatians 4:25 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/galatians/4-25.htm">Galatians 4:25 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and Arabia because children city corresponds for Hagar her in is Jerusalem Mount Now of present she Sinai slavery stands the this to with<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/galatians/4-25.htm">NT Letters: Galatians 4:25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai (Gal. 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