Galatians 4:31

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

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

In Context

30but 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;'

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Cross References

John 8:36if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

Galatians 5:13For ye — to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

1 John 3:1See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

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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