Galatians 4:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by an enslaved woman and the other by a free woman.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondmaid and one by the free woman. [Gen. 16:15; 21:2, 9.]

American Standard Version (1901)

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.

Common English Bible

It’s written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one by a servant woman, and one by a free woman.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free woman.

Galatians 4:22 Cross References

Genesis 16:15

Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

Genesis 21:10

So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac.”

Galatians 4:23

One, the child of the enslaved woman, was born according to the flesh; the other, the child of the free woman, was born through the promise.

Galatians 4:30

But what does the scripture say? “Drive out the enslaved woman and her child, for the child of the enslaved woman will not share the inheritance with the child of the free woman.”

Galatians 4:31

So then, brothers and sisters, we are children, not of an enslaved woman but of the free woman.