Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you who wish to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
English Majority Text (NT)
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 the servant girl, and the other by a freewoman.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29Jesus answered and said to them, “You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God!
John 5:46For if you believed Moses, you would have believed Me; for he wrote about Me.
John 12:34The crowd answered Him, “We heard from the law that the Christ abides forever; and so how do You 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 speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be held accountable to God.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
Romans 10:3For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto 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 →