Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
In Context
20how I wish I could be 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 the other by the free woman.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
John 5:46If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.
John 12:34The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Romans 7:5For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
Romans 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit 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 →