Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you Goyim who wish to be under Gezetz, do you not possess “shema” hearing of the Torah?
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
In Context
20Would that I were present with you just now and could change my tone, because I am baffled by you.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to them, You are in error, not having known the Kitvei Hakodesh or the gevurat Hashem (power of G-d).
John 5:46For if you were having emunah in Moshe, you would have had emunah in me, for he himself wrote concerning me. + 5:46 Gn 3:15; 45:4-9; Dt 18:15
John 12:34Then the crowd answered him, We heard from the Torah that the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach remains l'Olam (forever) and how do you say that it is necessary for the Bar Enosh to be lifted up? Who is this Bar Enosh? + 12:34 Ps 89:4,36-37; 110:4; Isa 9:7; Ezek 37:25; Dan 7:14
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the Gezetz (Law) says, it says to those under the Gezetz, in order that every mouth might be stopped and kol HaOlam Hazeh become ashem (guilty) and liable to the Mishpat Hashem. + 3:19 Ps 1:5
Romans 7:5For when we were in the basar (in the fallen condition of the old humanity), through the Gezetz, the ta'avat besarim, the sinful passions + 7:5 i.e., Chet Kadmonʼs yetzer harah of the fallen human condition were working in our natural capacities, so as to bear p'ri for mavet (death). + 7:5 cf. Ro 4:15
Romans 10:3For, having no saving da'as of the Tzidkat Hashem (the righteousness of G-d), and seeking to establish their own, + 10:3 that is, self-attained they have not subjected themselves to the Tzidkat Hashem (righteousness of G-d). + 10:3 1:17; 3:5,21,25-26; 6:18
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 →