Galatians 4:28

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

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

In Context

27For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate women have more children than her who has a husband.”

29But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

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Cross References

Acts 3:25You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

Romans 9:8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

Galatians 4:23However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through 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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