Galatians 4:28-31

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²⁸But we, brethren, are children [^[a]not by physical descent, as was Ishmael, but] like Isaac, born ^[b]in virtue of promise.

²⁹Yet [just] as at that time the child [of ordinary birth] born according to the flesh despised and persecuted him [who was born remarkably] according to [the promise and the working of] the [Holy] Spirit, so it is now also.^(A)

³⁰But what does the Scripture say? Cast out and send away the slave woman and her son, for never shall the son of the slave woman be heir and share the inheritance with the son of the free woman.^(B)

³¹So, brethren, we [who are born again] are not children of a slave woman [^[c]the natural], but of the free [^[d]the supernatural].

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Galatians 4:28 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
Galatians 4:28 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
Galatians 4:31 Joseph S. Exell, ed., The Biblical Illustrator.
Galatians 4:31 Joseph S. Exell, ed., The Biblical Illustrator.

Galatians 4:28-31

New International Version

²⁸Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.^(A) ²⁹At that time the son born according to the flesh^(B) persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit.^(C) It is the same now. ³⁰But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”^[a]^(D) ³¹Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman,^(E) but of the free woman.^(F)