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Galatians 4:21

Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

Young's Literal Translation

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 was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.

22for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

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Cross References

Matthew 22:29And Jesus answering said to them, 'Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;

John 5:46for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;

John 12:34the multitude answered him, 'We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain — to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this — the Son of Man?'

Romans 3:19And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

Romans 7:5for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that [are] through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

Romans 10:3for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

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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