Galatians 4:28

Now we, my brethren, like Isaac, are the children of the promise.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

In Context

27For it is written, Be joyful, thou barren, who bearest not: exult and shout, thou who hast not travailed: for more numerous are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman.

29And as then, he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him who was born of the Spirit; so also is it now.

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Cross References

Acts 3:25Ye are the children of the prophets: and that covenant which God made with our fathers, when he said to Abraham, that 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 the children of God; but the children of the promise, are accounted for the seed.

Galatians 4:23But he that was by the bond maid, was born after the flesh; and he that was by the free woman, was by 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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