Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
In Context
20And I would willingly be present with you now, and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you.
22For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free woman.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
John 5:46For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also; for he wrote of me.
John 12:34The multitude answered him: We have heard out of the law, that Christ abideth for ever; and how sayest thou: The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
Romans 3:19Now we know, that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be made subject to God.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
Romans 10:3For they, not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted 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 →