Galatians 4:28

But you, brethren, are the children of Isaac, according to the promise.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 one who does not bring forth; break forth and cry aloud, thou that dost not travail: because many more are the children of the barren than of her having a husband.

29But as the one at that time having been born according to the flesh persecuted the one according to the Spirit, even 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, In thy seed shall the families of the earth be truly blessed.

Romans 9:8that is the children of the flesh the same are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

Galatians 4:23But the one indeed of the bond-maid was born according to the flesh, and the one of the freewoman 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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