Galatians 4:21

Say to me, ye that will be under the law, have ye not read the law?

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

In Context

20and I would now be at you, and change my voice, for I am confounded among you. (I wish that I could be with you, and change my tone, for I am confused about you.)

22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one of a servant [or of a handmaiden], and one of a free woman [or of a wife].

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Cross References

Matthew 22:29Jesus answered, and said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the virtue of God. (Jesus answered, and said to them, Ye err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.)

John 5:46For if ye believed to Moses, peradventure ye should believe also to me; for he wrote of me. (For if ye believed Moses, perhaps ye would also believe me; for he wrote about me.)

John 12:34And the people answered to him, We have heard of the law, that Christ dwelleth [into] without end; and how sayest thou, It behooveth man’s Son to be areared? Who is this man’s Son? (And the people said to him, We have heard in the Law, that the Messiah remaineth forever; so how sayest thou, It behooveth the Son of man to be raised up? Who is this Son of man?)

Romans 3:19And we know, that whatever things the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that be in the law, (so) that each mouth be stopped, and each world be made subject to God.

Romans 7:5For when we were in (the) flesh, (the) passions of sins, that were by the law (or which were stirred up by the Law), wrought in our members, to bear fruit to death.

Romans 10:3For they unknowing (or not knowing) God’s rightwiseness, and seeking to make steadfast their own rightwiseness, be not subject to the rightwiseness 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 →

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