Galatians 4:28 “Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.”

Galatians 4:28

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promise.

Darby Translation

But ye, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.

Young's Literal Translation

And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

Bible in Basic English

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

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Cross references

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

Galatians 4:23 Galatians 3:29 Romans 4:13–18 Acts 3:25 Romans 9:8 Romans 9:9

Galatians 4:23 · BSB

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

Galatians 3:29 · BSB

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

Romans 4:13–18 · BSB

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.

Acts 3:25 · BSB

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.’

Romans 9:8 · BSB

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.

Romans 9:9 · BSB

For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27For 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.”

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

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