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Galatians 4:28

Isaac
Identity and self-worthCovenant and promisesFaith

26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

27 For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

29 At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

30 But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

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Compare

BSB
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
KJV
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
WEB
Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
ASV
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
DARBY
But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.
BLB
Now you⁺, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
ÅB
Men vi, brødre, er løftets barn, slik som Isak.
OTB
Nå er dere, brødre og søstre, som Isak, løftets barn.
B1930
Men vi, brødre, er løftets barn, likesom Isak.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Galatians 4:23

    His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

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  • Romans 9:8–9

    So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

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  • Romans 4:13–18

    For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

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  • Galatians 3:29

    And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

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  • Acts 3:25

    And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

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