Galatians 4:21 — Meaning and Application

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

Galatians 4:21

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My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. {I stand...: or, I am perplexed for you}

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

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

But he {who was} of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman {was} by promise.

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Galatians 4:1

"Now I say, {That} the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;"

Galatians 4:2

"But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father."

Galatians 4:3

"Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: {elements: or, rudiments}"

Galatians 4:4

"But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,"

Galatians 4:5

"To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."

Galatians 4:6

"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father."

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