Galatians 4:29
And as then he who was born of the flesh persecuted him who was after the Spirit, so also now.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
28But we, my brethren, as Ishak, are the children of promise.
Cross References
Matthew 23:34On this account, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; (some) of these you shall kill and crucify; and (some) of these you shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city.
John 15:9As my Father hath loved me, so I have loved you: continue in the love of me.
Romans 8:13For if after the flesh you live, you must die: but if, after the Spirit, the habitudes of the body you mortify, you live.
Galatians 5:11But I, my brethren, if yet I have preached for circumcision, why have I been persecuted? Hath the scandal of the cross ceased?
1 Thessalonians 2:14But you, my brethren, have become like the churches of Aloha which are in Jihud, who are in Jeshu Meshiha, because you likewise suffer from your fellow-country-men, as they also from the Jihudoyee;
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 →