Galatians 4:28

But ye, brethren, after the manner of Isaac, are children of promise.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

27For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not; Because many are the children of the desolate, rather than of her who has the husband.

29But as then, the one born after the flesh persecuted the one born after the spirit, so also is it now.

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Cross References

Acts 3:25Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Romans 9:8That is, not they who are the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

Galatians 4:23But the one by the bondwoman was born after the flesh, and the one by the freewoman through the 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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