Galatians 4:28

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

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

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27For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

29But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

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Cross References

Acts 3:25You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

Romans 9:8That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

Galatians 4:23Now 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.

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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