Galatians 4:23
Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 17:15And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.
Genesis 21:1And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.
Romans 9:7And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.
Galatians 4:28Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.
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 →