Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Tell me, those of you who want to be under the law, don’t you hear the law?

International Standard Version

Tell me, those of you who want to live under the Law: Are you really listening to what the Law says?

A Conservative Version

Tell me those desiring to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Tell me, you who are bent on being under the Law, do you not listen to [what] the Law [really says]?

An Understandable Version

Tell me, those of you who desire to be under [obligation to the requirements of] the law of Moses: Are you really paying attention to what the law of Moses says?

Anderson New Testament

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

Bible in Basic English

Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

Common New Testament

Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?

Daniel Mace New Testament

But tell me, you that are so willing to be under the law, why don't you consider the law?

Darby Translation

Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?

Goodspeed New Testament

Tell me this, you who want to be subject to law: Will you not listen to the Law?

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

Tell me, those wishing to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Tell me, [you] who are wanting to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

Modern King James verseion

Tell me, those desiring to be under Law, do you not hear the Law?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law: have ye not heard of the law?

Moffatt New Testament

Tell me, you who are keen to be under the Law, will you not listen to the Law?

Montgomery New Testament

Tell me, you who wish to be subject to the Law, why do you not listen to the Law?

NET Bible

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

New Heart English Bible

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

Tell me, you that wish to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

The Emphasized Bible

Tell me! ye who, under law, are wishing to be: The law, do ye not hear?

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

Tell me, you who want to be still subject to Law--Why do not you listen to the Law?

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

Tell me--you who want to continue to be subject to Law--will you not listen to the Law?

Williams New Testament

Tell me, you who want to be subject to law, will you not listen to what the law says?

World English Bible

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

Worrell New Testament

Tell me, ye who are wishing to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

Worsley New Testament

Tell me, you that are so desirous to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

Youngs Literal Translation

Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

me
μοί 
Moi 
me, my, I, mine
Usage: 152

ye that

which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

θέλω ἐθέλω 
thelo 
will/would, will/would have, desire, desirous, list, to will,
Usage: 136

to be
εἶναι 
Einai 
to be, be, was, is, am, are, were, not tr,
Usage: 97

ὑπό 
Hupo 
of, by, under, with, in, not tr,
Usage: 188

the law
νόμος 
Nomos 
law
Usage: 179

do ye
ἀκούω 
Akouo 
Usage: 313

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

ἀκούω 
Akouo 
Usage: 313

Devotionals

Devotionals about Galatians 4:21

Images Galatians 4:21

Prayers for Galatians 4:21

Context Readings

Hagar And Sarah Represent Two Covenants

20 but I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. 21 Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman.

Cross References

Matthew 21:42-44

Jesus *said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures,
The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;
This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Matthew 22:29-32

But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.

John 5:46-47

For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.

John 10:34

Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

John 12:34

The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

John 15:25

But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;

Romans 6:14

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 7:5-6

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Romans 9:30-32

What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;

Romans 10:3-10

For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Galatians 3:10

For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”

Galatians 3:23-24

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed.

Galatians 4:9

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?

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