Galatians 4:28

We, indeed, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

In Context

27For it is written: Rejoice you barren, that do not bear: break forth and cry aloud, you that travail not: for many more are the children of the deserted, than of her that had the husband of the deserted.

29But as then, he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was born according to the Spirit, so even now.

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Cross References

Acts 3:25You are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Romans 9:8That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the posterity.

Galatians 4:23But the one by the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; the other, by the free woman, was by promise.

Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:22-31

Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem… Read the whole commentary →

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