Galatians 4:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

Galatians 4:28 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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Isaac Justification

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-31)

In these verses the apostle illustrates the difference between believers who rested in Christ only and those judaizers who trusted in the law, by a comparison taken from the story of Isaac and Ishmael. This he introduces in such a manner as was proper to strike and impress their minds, and to convince them of their great weakness in departing from the truth, and suffering themselves to be deprived…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

28. we--The oldest manuscripts and versions are divided between “we” and “ye.” “We” better accords with Ga 4:26, “mother of us.” children of promise--not children after the flesh, but through the promise (Ga 4:23, 29, 31). “We are” so, and ought to wish to continue so.