Galatians 4:28

But you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise;

Montgomery 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, O thou barren one who dost never bear, Break forth in joy, thou that dost not travail; For the children of the desolate woman are many. Yea, more than hers who has a husband.

29but just as in old times the son born by the flesh used to persecute the son born by the power of the Spirit, so also it is now.

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Cross References

Acts 3:25"You are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, "And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Romans 9:8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity.

Galatians 4:23but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a 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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