Galatians 4:31

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

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In The King James Version

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

In Context

30But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

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Cross References

John 8:36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Galatians 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

1 John 3:1Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

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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