Galatians 4:21
King James Version (KJV)
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Translations
Galatians 4:21 - Amplified Bible
Tell me, you who are bent on being under the Law, will you listen to what the Law [really] says?
Galatians 4:21 - American Standard Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Galatians 4:21 - Bible in Basic English
Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?
Galatians 4:21 - Darby Bible
Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?
Galatians 4:21 - English Standard Version
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
Galatians 4:21 - King James Version
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Galatians 4:21 - La Biblia de las Americas
Decidme, los que deseáis estar bajo la ley, ¿no oìs a la ley?
Galatians 4:21 - The Message
Tell me now, you who have become so enamored with the law: Have you paid close attention to that law? Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. The son of the slave woman was born by human connivance; the son of the free woman was born by Gods promise. This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God. One is from Mount Sinai in Arabia. It corresponds with what is now going on in Jerusalem—a slave life, producing slaves as offspring. This is the way of Hagar. In contrast to that, there is an invisible Jerusalem, a free Jerusalem, and she is our mother—this is the way of Sarah. Remember what Isaiah wrote:
Rejoice, barren woman who bears no children,
shout and cry out, woman who has no birth pangs,
Because the children of the barren woman
now surpass the children of the chosen woman.
Isnt it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise? In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless connivance (Ishmael) harassed the child who came—empowered by the Spirit—from the faithful promise (Isaac). Isnt it clear that the harassment you are now experiencing from the Jerusalem heretics follows that old pattern? There is a Scripture that tells us what to do: "Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son." Isnt that conclusive? We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Galatians 4:21 - New American Standard Bible
Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?
Galatians 4:21 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy
Dìganme, los que desean estar bajo la ley, ¿no oyen a la ley?
Galatians 4:21 - World English Bible
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don`t you listen to the law?
Galatians 4:21 - Young's Living Translation
Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?
Galatians 4:21 - Additional Comments
Those who claim to ignore Christ because they follow the law, if you look carefully, they are also ignoring the law. E.g. it was Abraham's faith that made him righteous (Gen 15:6, Gal 3:6), and not his works. Many hid behind the law to avoid doing what they needed to be doing, to follow the right master!
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