"Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise." — Galatians 4:28

Galatians 4:28 · KJV

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

— Galatians 4:28

For it is written, Rejoice, {thou} barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

Verse 29

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him {that was born} after the Spirit, even so {it is} now.

Galatians 4 — Context

But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

For it is written, Rejoice, {thou} barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

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

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him {that was born} after the Spirit, even so {it is} now.

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 freewoman.

Cross References

Galatians 4:23

But he {who was} of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman {was} by promise.

Romans 9:8-9

That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these {are} not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

Romans 4:13-18

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, {was} not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Galatians 3:29

And if ye {be} Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Acts 3:25

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.