Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. We also testify to him, and you know that our testimony is true.

and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”

On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth.”

(Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has pronounced judgment against her on your behalf!)

And I saw the holy city – the new Jerusalem – descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God – the All-Powerful – and the Lamb are its temple.

The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, your faith is great! Let what you want be done for you.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

“Immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

He brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.