Galatians 4:21
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
In Context
20I wish I could be with you now, and change my address; for I am in doubt about you.
22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29Jesus then answering, said unto them, Ye are in an error, from not knowing the Scriptures, and the power of God.
John 5:46For if ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for of me did he write.
John 12:34Then the multitude answered him, We have heard out of the law, that the Messiah abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, That the Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatsoever things the law saith, it speaks to those who are under the law: that every mouth might be sealed up, and all the world become criminal before God.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
Romans 10:3For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God, and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not submitted to 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 →