Galatians 4:21
Answer me this, you people who want to live under the law: Don't you hear what the law is saying?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
In Context
22As Scripture says, Abraham had two sons, one from the servant girl, and one from the free woman.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29Jesus replied, “Your mistake is you don't know Scripture or what God can do.
John 5:46For if you really trusted Moses you would trust in me, because he wrote about me.
John 12:34The crowd responded, “The Law tells us that the Messiah will live forever, so how can you say the Son of man must be ‘lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of man’?”
Romans 3:19It's clear that everything in the law applies to those who live under the law so that no one could have any excuses, and to make sure everyone in the whole world is answerable to God.
Romans 7:5While we were controlled by old nature, our sinful desires (as revealed by the law) were at work within us and resulted in death.
Romans 10:3They don't understand how God makes us right with him, and they try to make themselves right. They refuse to accept God's way of making people right.
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 →