Galatians 4:31
We therefore, my brethren, are not the children of the bondmaid, but the children of the free.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
In Context
Cross References
John 8:36If He therefore, the Son, shall liberate you, truly shall you be sons of freedom.
Galatians 5:13But you have been called unto liberty, my brethren: only let not your liberty be for an occasion of the flesh; but in love be subjected one to another.
1 John 3:1And see how great is the love of the Father toward us, that sons he hath called us, and also made us! Therefore the world doth not know us, because that it hath also not known 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 →