Galatians 4:28

Now we, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

27For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

29At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

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Cross References

Acts 3:25And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with our fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

Romans 9:8So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

Galatians 4:23His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born 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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