Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
In Context
22For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one by a servant woman, and one by a free woman.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29But Jesus responded to them by saying: “You have gone astray by knowing neither the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
John 5:46For if you were believing in Moses, perhaps you would believe in me also. For he wrote about me.
John 12:34The crowd answered him: “We have heard, from the law, that the Christ remains forever. And so how can you say, ‘The Son of man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of man?”
Romans 3:19But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.
Romans 10:3For, being ignorant of the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not subjected themselves to the justice 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 →