KJV King James Version
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
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Galatians 4:28
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
WEB World English Bible
Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
ASV American Standard Version
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,
Surrounding context — Galatians 4
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 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.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
30 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.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
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Galatians 4:23But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise.Romans 9:8-9That 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 4:13-18For 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 3:29And if ye [be] Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.Acts 3:25Ye 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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