Galatians 4:23 Cross References - Thomson

²³ but he indeed who was of the bondwoman, was born in the ordinary course of nature; and he who was of the freewoman, in virtue of the promise.

¹⁵ Moreover God said to Abraham, "Sara thy wife shall not be called Sara. Her name shall be Sarah. ¹⁶ And I will bless her and give thee a son by her. And I will bless him. And he shall become nations, and from him there shall be kings of nations." ¹⁷ Upon this Abraham fell on his face and smiled, and said in his heart, To him who is in his hundredth year shall a son be born? and shall Sarah bring forth in her ninetieth year? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Let this Ismael live before thee. ¹⁹ Whereupon God said to Abraham, Nay, behold Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaak. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant to be his God and the God of his seed after him.

¹⁰ Then he said, I will return and come to thee about this time twelve month, and Sarah thy wife will have a son. And Sarah heard, being at the door of the tent behind them. ¹¹ [Now Abraham and Sarah were far advanced in life, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.] ¹² And Sarah smiled within herself, saying, It hath never been so with me even to this time, and my lord is old. ¹³ And the Lord said to Abraham, Why did Sarah smile within herself, saying, Shall I indeed bring forth? I who am old? ¹⁴ Can any thing be impossible with God? About this time twelve month I will return to thee, and Sarah shall have a son.

¹ Now the Lord visited Sarah as he had said. And the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken, ² and she conceived and bare a son to Abraham in old age at the set time, of which the Lord had spoken to him.

¹⁸ Against hope he believed with a hope that he should become father of many nations according to what was said, "So shall thy seed be" ¹⁹ and far from being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body now become dead, he being then in his hundredth year; nor the deadness of Sarah's womb. ²⁰ He disputed not against the promise of God by unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, ²¹ and being fully persuaded that he was able to perform what he had promised.

⁷ nor are they all children, because they are of the race of Abraham; but in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee. ⁸ That is to say, It is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed.

⁸ But what doth it say? The matter is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is, the matter of this belief, which we proclaim,

²⁸ Now we, brethren, are children of promise, as Isaak was. ²⁹ But as then he who was born in the ordinary course of nature persecuted him who was born in a spiritual manner,' even so it is now.

¹¹ By faith Sarah also received strength for conception, and was delivered of a son when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.