Galatians 4:21
Tell me, ye who desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
In Context
22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondmaid, and one by the free woman.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29Jesus answered, and said to them: Ye do err, from not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
John 5:46For, if ye believed Moses, ye would also believe me; for Moses wrote concerning me.
John 12:34The multitude said to him: We have heard from the law, that the Messiah abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, that the Son of man is to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
Romans 3:19Now we know, that whatever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be guilty before God.
Romans 7:5For while we were in the flesh, the emotions of sin which are by the law, were active in our members, that we should bear fruits unto death.
Romans 10:3For they know not the righteousness of God, but seek to establish their own righteousness: and therefore they have not submitted themselves 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 →