Galatians 4:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Matt 21:42-44 : 42 Jesus saith unto them, ‹Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?› 43 ‹Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.› 44 ‹And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.›
  • Matt 22:29-32 : 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, ‹Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.› 30 ‹For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.› 31 ‹But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,› 32 ‹I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.›
  • John 5:46-47 : 46 ‹For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.› 47 ‹But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?›
  • John 10:34 : 34 Jesus answered them, ‹Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?›
  • John 12:34 : 34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
  • John 15:25 : 25 ‹But› [this cometh to pass], ‹that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.›
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 ¶ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
  • Rom 7:5-6 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
  • Rom 9:30-32 : 30 ¶ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. 31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
  • Rom 10:3-9 : 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. 5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down [from above:]) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, [even] in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • Gal 3:23-24 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

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

    23 But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise.

    24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

    25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

  • 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

  • 21 [Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

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    14 For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

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    12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

    13 (For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

    14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

  • 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

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    26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

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  • 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

  • 8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

  • 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

  • 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

  • 13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

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    30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

    31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

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

  • 7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

  • 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

  • 7 ¶ What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

  • 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

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    18 For if the inheritance [be] of the law, [it is] no more of promise: but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise.

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    4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if [it be] yet in vain.

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  • 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

  • 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

  • 21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise [their] children, neither to walk after the customs.

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    9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

    10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

  • 14 ¶ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  • 21 ¶ In the law it is written, With [men of] other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

  • 1 ¶ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

  • 4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

  • 36 Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?

  • 26 He said unto him, ‹What is written in the law? how readest thou?›

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