Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you who desire to be under law, do you not heed that law?
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In The King James Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
In Context
20—I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone; because I am perplexed about you!
22For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29So in answer Jesus said to them: “You are deceived, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God!
John 5:46Because if you really believed Moses you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
John 12:34The people answered Him: “We have heard from the Law that the Messiah remains forever; and so how can you say, ‘The Son of the Man must be lifted up’? Who is this ‘the Son of the Man’?”
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world become accountable to God.
Romans 7:5Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to death.
Romans 10:3For they, failing to understand God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to God's righteousness.
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 →