Galatians 4:26 Cross References - NSB

²⁶ The Jerusalem above is free. She is our mother.

³ Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. ⁴ I will mention Rahab (defamatory word for Egypt) (a boaster) (Isaiah 30:7) and Babylon among those who know me. Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia: »This one was born there.« ⁵ But of Zion it shall be said: »This one and that one were born in her and the Most High will establish her.« ⁶ Jehovah will count when he registers the peoples: »This one was born there.«

³ Then many people will come and say: »Let us go to the mountain of Jehovah, to the House of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways so that we may live by them.« The law will go out from Zion. The word of Jehovah will go out from Jerusalem.

¹ »If only you were like my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I find you outside I would kiss you. I would not be despised. ² »I would lead you to my mother's house. She would instruct me. I would induce you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

² In the last days the mountain of the house of Jehovah will be established as the highest of the mountains and exalted above the hills. All the nations will stream to it.

¹ This is what Jehovah says: »Where are your mother's divorce papers? Did I give her any to get rid of her? To which of my creditors did I sell you? You were sold because of your sins. I got rid of your mother because of your rebellion.

⁹ Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem! Jehovah has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁸ »Be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.

¹⁰ »All who love Jerusalem, be happy and rejoice with her. All who mourn for her be glad with her.

¹ For Zion's sake I will not remain silent. For Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until its righteousness shines like the sunrise and its salvation burns brightly like a torch. ² »The nations will see your righteousness. All kings will see your glory. You will be given a new name that Jehovah will designate.

² »Plead with your mother (your nation), for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband. Let her put away her acts of adultery from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts!

⁵ Their mother played the harlot. She that conceived them acted shamefully! For she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

⁵ You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will stumble with you in the night. I will destroy your mother.

¹⁷ »You will know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy and no strangers will pass through (invade) her any more.

¹ It will happen in the last days! The mountain of the house of Jehovah will be established above the top of the mountains. It will be exalted above the hills. Peoples will flow to it. ² Many nations will come. They will say: »Come you people, let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths!« For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

³⁶ »If therefore the Son will make you free, you will be free indeed.

¹⁴ Sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁸ After being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.

²² It is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman, and one by the freewoman.

¹ Christ liberated us for freedom (moral liberty). Stand fast therefore, and do not become entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

²⁰ However, our citizenship is in heaven. We also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

²² You have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads (thousands of thousands) of angels,

¹⁶ Be free, and yet do not use your freedom for a covering for evil, but as servants of God.

¹² »'I will make the one who overcomes, a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will not go out from it anymore. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is the New Jerusalem. This city comes down out of heaven from my God. I will write my new name on him.

⁵ A name was written on her forehead, a mystery, »Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth.«

² Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

¹⁰ He carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy city Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. ¹¹ She had the glory of God. Her light was like a very precious stone, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. ¹² The city had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on each gate, the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: ¹³ On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. ¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ He who talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city and the gates and the wall. ¹⁶ And the city lies foursquare. The length is as large as the width. He measured the city with the reed, fourteen hundred miles. The length and the width and the height of it are equal. ¹⁷ He measured the wall, two hundred feet, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. ¹⁸ The structure of the wall was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹ The foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; ²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each individual gate was one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass. ²² I saw no temple there: for the Jehovah God the Almighty and the Lamb are the temple. ²³ The city did not need the sun or the moon to shine on it. For the glory of God and of the Lamb was its light. ²⁴ The nations will walk by means of its light. The kings of the earth bring their glory into it. ²⁵ Its gates will not close in the daytime and there will be no night there. ²⁶ They will bring the glory of the nations into it. ²⁷ Nothing impure will ever enter it. The shameful and deceitful will not enter. Only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life will enter.