Galatians 4:28

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Galatians 4:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible

26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

27 For 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.”

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

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

30 But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

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Galatians 4:23

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

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

Acts 3:25

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 4:13

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.

Romans 4:14

For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

Romans 4:15

because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Romans 4:16

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

Romans 4:17

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Romans 4:18

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

Romans 9:8

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

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