Galatians 4:21
Tell me--you who want to continue to be subject to Law--will you not listen to the Law?
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 with you and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl and one by the free woman.
Cross References
Matthew 22:29The reply of Jesus was, "You are in error, through ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God.
John 5:46For if you believe Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
John 12:34The crowd answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ remains for ever. In what sense do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is that Son of Man?"
Romans 3:19But it cannot be denied that all that the Law says is addressed to those who are living under the Law, in order that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may await sentence from God.
Romans 7:5For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.
Romans 10:3Ignorant of the righteousness which God provides and building their hopes upon a righteousness of their own, they have refused submission 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 →