Galatians 4:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?”
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“Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Galatians 4:21 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 21:42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
- Matthew 22:29Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
- Mark 10:3“What did Moses command you?” He replied.
- John 5:46If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.
- John 10:34Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?
- John 12:34The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
- John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
- Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- Romans 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- Romans 7:5For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
- Romans 9:30What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
- Romans 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
- Galatians 3:10All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- Galatians 3:23Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.
- Galatians 4:9But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
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