Galatians 4:21
Tell me! ye who, under law, are wishing to be: The law, do ye not hear?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 22:29And Jesus answering, said—Ye are deceiving yourselves, knowing neither the Scriptures, nor yet the power of God.
John 5:46For, if ye had been believing, in Moses, ye would, in that case, have been believing, in me: for, concerning me, he wrote.
John 12:34The multitude, therefore, answered him—We, have heard, out of the law, that, the Christ, abideth evermore; How then dost, thou, say,—It behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?
Romans 3:19Now we know that, whatsoever things the law saith, to them who are within the law, it speaketh, in order that, every mouth, may be stopped and all the world come, under penal sentence, unto God.
Romans 7:5For, when we were in the flesh, the susceptibilities of sins which were through the law, used to be energized in our members unto the bringing forth of fruit unto death;
Romans 10:3For, not knowing God’s righteousness and, their own, seeking to establish, unto the righteousness of God, have they not submitted;
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 →