Galatians 4:28
But we, my brethren, as Ishak, are the children of promise.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
In Context
29And as then he who was born of the flesh persecuted him who was after the Spirit, so also now.
Cross References
Acts 3:25You are the sons of the prophets; and the covenant which Aloha set with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, In thy seed shall be blessed all the generations of the earth,
Romans 9:8but that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of Aloha, but the children of the promise are reckoned the seed.
Galatians 4:23But he who was of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh, and he who was of the free was by 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 →