Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
Tell me this, you who want to be subject to law: Will you not listen to the Law?
New American Standard Bible
Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not
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?
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
thelo
References
Word Count of 36 Translations in Galatians 4:21
Prayers for Galatians 4:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hagar And Sarah Represent Two Covenants
20 I wish I could be with you now, and use a different tone with you, for I do not know which way to turn about you. 21 Tell me this, you who want to be subject to law: Will you not listen to the Law? 22 For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl, and one by the free woman.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 21:42-44
Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; This came from the Lord, And seems marvelous to us'?
Matthew 22:29-32
Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.
John 5:46-47
For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.
John 10:34
Jesus answered, "Is it not declared in your Law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?
John 12:34
The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"
John 15:25
But the saying of their Law, 'They hated me without cause,' must be fulfilled.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.
Romans 6:14
For sin must no longer control you, for you live not under law but under mercy.
Romans 7:5-6
For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.
Romans 9:30-32
Then what do we conclude? That heathen who were not striving for uprightness attained it, that is, an uprightness which was produced by faith;
Romans 10:3-10
For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.
Galatians 3:10
For there is a curse upon all who rely on obedience to the Law, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who does not stand by everything that is written in the Book of the Law and obey it."
Galatians 3:23-24
But before this faith came, we were kept shut up under the Law, in order to obtain the faith that was to be revealed.
Galatians 4:9
but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?