Galatians 4:28

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
My brothers and sisters, you are children who were born because of God's promise, just as Isaac was.

Revised Standard Version
Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Brethre we are after the maner of Isaac chyldren of promes.

Hebrew Names Version
Now we, brothers, as Yitzchak was, are children of promise.

New American Standard Bible
And you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.

New Century Version
My brothers and sisters, you are God's children because of his promise, as Isaac was then.

Update Bible Version
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

English Standard Version
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Weymouth's New Testament
But you, brethren, like Isaac, are children born in fulfilment of a promise.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For, britheren, we ben sones of biheeste aftir Isaac;

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

Berean Standard Bible
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Contemporary English Version
My friends, you were born because of this promise, just as Isaac was.

Amplified Bible
And we, [believing] brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children [not merely of physical descent, like Ishmael, but are children born] of promise [born miraculously].

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

Bible in Basic English
Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

Complete Jewish Bible
You, brothers, like Yitz'chak, are children referred to in a promise of God.

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

International Standard Version
So you,we">[fn] brothers, are children of the promise, like Isaac.Acts 3:25; Romans 9:8; Galatians 3:29;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But we, my brethren, as Ishak, are the children of promise.

Murdock Translation
Now we, my brethren, like Isaac, are the children of the promise.

King James Version (1611)
Now wee, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

New Living Translation
And you, dear brothers and sisters, are children of the promise, just like Isaac.

New Life Bible
Christian brothers, we are like Isaac. We are the children God promised.

New Revised Standard
Now you, my friends, are children of the promise, like Isaac.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promes.

George Lamsa Translation
Now we, my brethren, are the children of promise, as was Isaac.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, we, brethren, after the manner of Isaac, are children of a promise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But brethren, we are after Isaac the chyldren of promise.

Good News Translation
Now, you, my friends, are God's children as a result of his promise, just as Isaac was.

Christian Standard Bible®
Now you too, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.

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

Lexham English Bible
But you, brothers, are children of the promise, just as Isaac.

Literal Translation
But, brothers, we are children of promise according to Isaac.

Young's Literal Translation
And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for vs (brethren) we are the children of Isaac acordinge to the promes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Now we, my brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise.

New English Translation
But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

New King James Version
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

Simplified Cowboy Version
You cowboys and cowgirls are promised children, just like Isaac was.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you brothers, in accordance with Isaac, are children of promise.

Contextual Overview

²¹Tell me now, you who have become so enamored with the law: Have you paid close attention to that law? Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. The son of the slave woman was born by human connivance; the son of the free woman was born by God's promise. This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God. One is from Mount Sinai in Arabia. It corresponds with what is now going on in Jerusalem—a slave life, producing slaves as offspring. This is the way of Hagar. In contrast to that, there is an invisible Jerusalem, a free Jerusalem, and she is our mother—this is the way of Sarah. Remember what Isaiah wrote: Rejoice, barren woman who bears no children, shout and cry out, woman who has no birth pangs, Because the children of the barren woman now surpass the children of the chosen woman. Isn't it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise? In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless connivance (Ishmael) harassed the child who came—empowered by the Spirit—from the faithful promise (Isaac). Isn't it clear that the harassment you are now experiencing from the Jerusalem heretics follows that old pattern? There is a Scripture that tells us what to do: "Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son." Isn't that conclusive? We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:7 - Unto thy Genesis 17:19 - Sarah Genesis 18:10 - Sarah Genesis 21:1 - Sarah as Genesis 21:6 - God Genesis 25:5 - General Galatians 3:9 - General Philemon 1:16 - a brother

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,.... The Ethiopic version reads, "you, brethren"; and so one of Stephens's copies. As the two women, Hagar and Sarah, might be, and are allegorized; so likewise their respective offspring. Isaac signified, and was a type and figure of Abraham's spiritual seed, whether Jews or Gentiles, under the Gospel dispensation: and as he was, so they are,

the children of promise; as Isaac was promised unto Abraham, so were this spiritual seed, when it was said unto him, that he should be the father of many nations, as he is the father of us all, even of all them that believe, be they of what nation soever; and as Isaac was born by virtue, and in consequence of a promise made to Abraham of God's free good will and pleasure, and his generation and conception were beyond the strength and course of nature, were the effects of a divine power, and were something supernatural; so this spiritual seed are born again, by virtue, and in consequence of a promise, not only made to Abraham, but to the Lord Jesus Christ, the head of the covenant, that he should see his seed, enjoy a numerous offspring, and which should endure for ever; and also to the church, of whom it is said, that this and that man should be born in her; and particularly in consequence of the promise cited in the foregoing verse, from whence these words are an inference, deduction, or illustration: and these children of the promise, so called from hence, are born again, above and beyond the strength of nature; not through the power and free will of man, but through the abundant mercy and sovereign will of God, by his powerful and efficacious grace, and by the word of promise, the Gospel, as a means. Moreover, to these children, or spiritual seed of Abraham, signified by Isaac, do all the promises belong, as that of God, as a covenant God gave unto them; of Christ, as a Saviour and Redeemer; of the Holy Spirit, as a sanctifier and comforter; and of all good things, of temporal mercies, so far as are for their real good; and of all spiritual blessings, as righteousness, peace, pardon, comfort, all supplies of grace, and eternal life: and these likewise receive these promises; the Holy Spirit, as a spirit of promise, opens and applies them to them, puts them into the hand of faith, and enables them to plead them with God, and to believe the performance of them; so that this character in all respects agrees with them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now we, brethren - We who are Christians.

Are the children of the promise - We so far resemble Isaac, that there are great and precious promises made to us. We are not in the condition of Ishmael, to whom no promise was made.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. Now we — Who believe in the Lord Jesus, are the children of promise-are the spiritual offspring of the Messiah, the seed of Abraham, in whom the promise stated that all the nations of the earth should be blessed.