Galatians 4:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Galatians 4:31 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 8:36
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
John 1:12-13
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: …
Hebrews 2:14-15
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; …

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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. 31)

31. So then--The oldest manuscripts read, “Wherefore.” This is the conclusion inferred from what precedes. In Ga 3:29 and Ga 4:7, it was established that we, New Testament believers, are “heirs.” If, then, we are heirs, “we are not children of the bond woman (whose son, according to Scripture, was ‘not to be heir,’ Ga 4:30), but of the free woman (whose son was, according to Scripture, to be heir)…