Galatians 4:28

But ye, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of a promise.

Noyes Bible

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; for many are the children of the desolate one, rather than of her who hath the husband.”

29But as at that time he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born through the Spirit, so it is now.

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Cross References

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

Romans 9:8That is, not the children by natural descent are children of God, but the children to whom the promise is made are accounted as the offspring.

Galatians 4:23But the one by the bondwoman was born after the flesh; while the one by the freewoman was 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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