Galatians 4:28

So we, brethren, as Isaac, are the children of the promise.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 who bearest not, cry out and shout for joy, thou that travailest not, for more are the children of her that was desolate, than of her which had an husband.”

29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so is it now.

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Cross References

Acts 3:25Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And “in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.”

Romans 9:8That is, not the children of the flesh, these are the children of God: but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

Galatians 4:23Now the son of the bond-maid was born after the flesh, but that by the free woman was by 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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