Galatians 4:30

but what saith the Writing? 'Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.

In Context

29but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

31then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:10and she saith to Abraham, 'Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid hath no possession with my son — with Isaac.'

Romans 4:3for what doth the writing say? 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him — to righteousness;'

Romans 11:2God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known — in Elijah — what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

Galatians 3:8and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham —

James 4:5Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

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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