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Galatians 4:21 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? "
Galatians 4:21
Verse in Context
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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.
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:"
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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