Galatians 4:30
But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondmaid, and her son; because the son of the bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
31So then, my brethren, we are not sons of the bond-woman, but sons of the free woman.
Cross References
Romans 4:3For what saith the scripture? That Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Romans 11:2God hath not cast off those his people whom he before knew. Do ye not know, what, in the scripture of God, he said to Elijah? When he had complained to God against Israel, and said:
Galatians 3:8For, because God knew beforehand that the Gentiles would be made just by faith, he preannounced it to Abraham; as saith the holy scripture, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
James 4:5Or think ye, that the scripture hath vainly said: The spirit dwelling in us lusteth with envy?
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 →