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 God’s 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.
Isn’t 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). Isn’t 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." Isn’t 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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