Galatians 4:21
Tell me those desiring to be under law, do ye not hear the law?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
In Context
20But I was wishing to be present with you now and to change my tone, because I am perplexed at you.
22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one from the servant girl, and one from the freewoman.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29But having answered, Jesus said to them, Ye are led astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
John 5:46For if ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for that man wrote about me.
John 12:34The multitude answered him, We have heard from the law that the Christ remains into the age. And how can thou say, The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
Romans 3:19Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.
Romans 10:3For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:20-21
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. That the apostle might the better dispose these Christians to bear with him in the reproofs which he was obliged to give them, he here expresses his great affection to them, and the very tender concern he had for their welfare: he was not like them—one thing when among them and another when absent… Read the whole commentary →