Galatians 4:21 Tell me now, you who have become so enamored with the law: Have you paid close attention to that law? Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman...

4:21 MSG

Parallel Verses

The Message - Tell me now, you who have become so enamored with the law: Have you paid close attention to that law? Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. The son of the slave woman was born by human plotting; the son of the free woman was born by God’s promise. This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God. One is from Mount Sinai in Arabia. It corresponds with what is now going on in Jerusalem—a slave life, producing slaves as offspring. This is the way of Hagar. In contrast to that, there is an invisible Jerusalem, a free Jerusalem, and she is our mother—this is the way of Sarah. Remember what Isaiah wrote: Rejoice, barren woman who bears no children, shout and cry out, woman who has no birth pangs, Because the children of the barren woman now surpass the children of the chosen woman. Isn’t it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise? In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless plotting (Ishmael) harassed the child who came—empowered by the Spirit—from the faithful promise (Isaac). Isn’t it clear that the harassment you are now experiencing from the Jerusalem heretics follows that old pattern? There is a Scripture that tells us what to do: “Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son.” Isn’t that conclusive? We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
新标点和合本 - 你们这愿意在律法以下的人，请告诉我，你们岂没有听见律法吗？
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你们这愿意在律法之下的人，请告诉我，你们没有听见律法吗？
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你们这愿意在律法之下的人，请告诉我，你们没有听见律法吗？
当代译本 - 你们这些甘愿在律法之下的人啊！告诉我，你们没听过律法怎么说吗？
圣经新译本 - 你们这愿意在律法之下的人哪！请告诉我，你们没有听过律法吗？
中文标准译本 - 你们这些愿意在律法之下的人哪，请告诉我，难道你们没有听过律法吗？
现代标点和合本 - 你们这愿意在律法以下的人，请告诉我，你们岂没有听见律法吗？
和合本（拼音版） - 你们这愿意在律法以下的人，请告诉我，你们岂没有听见律法吗？
New International Version - Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
New International Reader's Version - You who want to be under the authority of the law, tell me something. Don’t you know what the law says?
English Standard Version - Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
New Living Translation - Tell me, you who want to live under the law, do you know what the law actually says?
Christian Standard Bible - Tell me, you who want to be under the law, don’t you hear the law?
New American Standard Bible - Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the Law?
New King James Version - Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
Amplified Bible - Tell me, you who are bent on being under the Law, do you not listen to [what] the Law [really says]?
American Standard Version - Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
King James Version - Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
New English Translation - Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?
World English Bible - Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
新標點和合本 - 你們這願意在律法以下的人，請告訴我，你們豈沒有聽見律法嗎？
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你們這願意在律法之下的人，請告訴我，你們沒有聽見律法嗎？
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你們這願意在律法之下的人，請告訴我，你們沒有聽見律法嗎？
當代譯本 - 你們這些甘願在律法之下的人啊！告訴我，你們沒聽過律法怎麼說嗎？
聖經新譯本 - 你們這願意在律法之下的人哪！請告訴我，你們沒有聽過律法嗎？
呂振中譯本 - 你們願意在律法以下的人哪，請告訴我，你們沒有聽律法書麼？
中文標準譯本 - 你們這些願意在律法之下的人哪，請告訴我，難道你們沒有聽過律法嗎？
現代標點和合本 - 你們這願意在律法以下的人，請告訴我，你們豈沒有聽見律法嗎？
文理和合譯本 - 爾願服律者其告我、爾不聞律乎、
文理委辦譯本 - 爾欲服法、試言爾聽法乎、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爾欲服律法下者、且告我、爾不聽律法乎、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 惟望爾明以示我爾既遵守律法、曷一諦審律法之精義乎。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Díganme ustedes, los que quieren estar bajo la ley: ¿por qué no le prestan atención a lo que la ley misma dice?
현대인의 성경 - 말해 보십시오. 여러분은 율법 아래 살기를 원하면서도 율법이 말하는 것을 듣지 못합니까?
Новый Русский Перевод - Скажите мне, вы, желающие быть под Законом, разве вы не слушаете Закона?
Восточный перевод - Скажите мне, вы, желающие быть под Законом, разве вы не понимаете, что говорит Закон?
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Скажите мне, вы, желающие быть под Законом, разве вы не понимаете, что говорит Закон?
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Скажите мне, вы, желающие быть под Законом, разве вы не понимаете, что говорит Закон?
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Dites-moi, vous qui voulez vivre sous le régime de la Loi, ne comprenez-vous pas ce que déclare la Loi ?
リビングバイブル - 律法を守らなければ救われない、と考えている皆さん。私のことばに耳を傾けてください。どうして律法のほんとうの意義を理解しないのですか。
Nestle Aland 28 - Λέγετέ μοι, οἱ ὑπὸ νόμον θέλοντες εἶναι, τὸν νόμον οὐκ ἀκούετε;
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - λέγετέ μοι, οἱ ὑπὸ νόμον θέλοντες εἶναι, τὸν νόμον οὐκ ἀκούετε?
Nova Versão Internacional - Digam-me vocês, os que querem estar debaixo da Lei: Acaso vocês não ouvem a Lei?
Hoffnung für alle - Ihr wollt euch also dem Gesetz unterwerfen. Wisst ihr denn eigentlich, was im Gesetz steht?
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Anh chị em đã muốn phục tùng luật pháp để được cứu rỗi, không lẽ anh chị em không biết luật pháp nói gì sao?
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ท่านที่อยากอยู่ใต้บทบัญญัติ บอกข้าพเจ้าเถิด ท่านไม่ตระหนักถึงสิ่งที่บทบัญญัติกล่าวไว้หรือ?
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - บอกข้าพเจ้าเถิดว่า ท่านที่ต้องการอยู่ภายใต้กฎบัญญัติ ท่านไม่ทราบหรือว่ากฎบัญญัติกล่าวไว้ว่าอย่างไร

Cross Reference

John 12:34 - Voices from the crowd answered, “We heard from God’s Law that the Messiah lasts forever. How can it be necessary, as you put it, that the Son of Man ‘be lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”
Romans 10:4 - The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”
John 10:34 - Jesus said, “I’m only quoting your inspired Scriptures, where God said, ‘I tell you—you are gods.’ If God called your ancestors ‘gods’—and Scripture doesn’t lie—why do you yell, ‘Blasphemer! Blasphemer!’ at the unique One the Father consecrated and sent into the world, just because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I don’t do the things my Father does, well and good; don’t believe me. But if I am doing them, put aside for a moment what you hear me say about myself and just take the evidence of the actions that are right before your eyes. Then perhaps things will come together for you, and you’ll see that not only are we doing the same thing, we are the same—Father and Son. He is in me; I am in him.”
Matthew 21:42 - Jesus said, “Right—and you can read it for yourselves in your Bibles: The stone the masons threw out is now the cornerstone. This is God’s work; we rub our eyes, we can hardly believe it! “This is the way it is with you. God’s kingdom will be taken back from you and handed over to a people who will live out a kingdom life. Whoever stumbles on this Stone gets shattered; whoever the Stone falls on gets smashed.”
Matthew 22:29 - Jesus answered, “You’re off base on two counts: You don’t know what God said, and you don’t know how God works. At the resurrection we’re beyond marriage. As with the angels, all our ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God. And regarding your speculation on whether the dead are raised or not, don’t you read your Bibles? The grammar is clear: God says, ‘I am—not was—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.’ The living God defines himself not as the God of dead men, but of the living.” Hearing this exchange the crowd was much impressed.
Galatians 3:23 - Until the time when we were mature enough to respond freely in faith to the living God, we were carefully surrounded and protected by the Mosaic law. The law was like those Greek tutors, with which you are familiar, who escort children to school and protect them from danger or distraction, making sure the children will really get to the place they set out for.

Parallel Verses

Cross Reference

The Message - Tell me now, you who have become so enamored with the law: Have you paid close attention to that law? Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. The son of the slave woman was born by human plotting; the son of the free woman was born by God’s promise. This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God. One is from Mount Sinai in Arabia. It corresponds with what is now going on in Jerusalem—a slave life, producing slaves as offspring. This is the way of Hagar. In contrast to that, there is an invisible Jerusalem, a free Jerusalem, and she is our mother—this is the way of Sarah. Remember what Isaiah wrote: Rejoice, barren woman who bears no children, shout and cry out, woman who has no birth pangs, Because the children of the barren woman now surpass the children of the chosen woman. Isn’t it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise? In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless plotting (Ishmael) harassed the child who came—empowered by the Spirit—from the faithful promise (Isaac). Isn’t it clear that the harassment you are now experiencing from the Jerusalem heretics follows that old pattern? There is a Scripture that tells us what to do: “Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son.” Isn’t that conclusive? We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
新标点和合本 - 你们这愿意在律法以下的人，请告诉我，你们岂没有听见律法吗？
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你们这愿意在律法之下的人，请告诉我，你们没有听见律法吗？
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你们这愿意在律法之下的人，请告诉我，你们没有听见律法吗？
当代译本 - 你们这些甘愿在律法之下的人啊！告诉我，你们没听过律法怎么说吗？
圣经新译本 - 你们这愿意在律法之下的人哪！请告诉我，你们没有听过律法吗？
中文标准译本 - 你们这些愿意在律法之下的人哪，请告诉我，难道你们没有听过律法吗？
现代标点和合本 - 你们这愿意在律法以下的人，请告诉我，你们岂没有听见律法吗？
和合本（拼音版） - 你们这愿意在律法以下的人，请告诉我，你们岂没有听见律法吗？
New International Version - Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
New International Reader's Version - You who want to be under the authority of the law, tell me something. Don’t you know what the law says?
English Standard Version - Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
New Living Translation - Tell me, you who want to live under the law, do you know what the law actually says?
Christian Standard Bible - Tell me, you who want to be under the law, don’t you hear the law?
New American Standard Bible - Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the Law?
New King James Version - Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
Amplified Bible - Tell me, you who are bent on being under the Law, do you not listen to [what] the Law [really says]?
American Standard Version - Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
King James Version - Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
New English Translation - Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?
World English Bible - Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
新標點和合本 - 你們這願意在律法以下的人，請告訴我，你們豈沒有聽見律法嗎？
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你們這願意在律法之下的人，請告訴我，你們沒有聽見律法嗎？
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你們這願意在律法之下的人，請告訴我，你們沒有聽見律法嗎？
當代譯本 - 你們這些甘願在律法之下的人啊！告訴我，你們沒聽過律法怎麼說嗎？
聖經新譯本 - 你們這願意在律法之下的人哪！請告訴我，你們沒有聽過律法嗎？
呂振中譯本 - 你們願意在律法以下的人哪，請告訴我，你們沒有聽律法書麼？
中文標準譯本 - 你們這些願意在律法之下的人哪，請告訴我，難道你們沒有聽過律法嗎？
現代標點和合本 - 你們這願意在律法以下的人，請告訴我，你們豈沒有聽見律法嗎？
文理和合譯本 - 爾願服律者其告我、爾不聞律乎、
文理委辦譯本 - 爾欲服法、試言爾聽法乎、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爾欲服律法下者、且告我、爾不聽律法乎、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 惟望爾明以示我爾既遵守律法、曷一諦審律法之精義乎。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Díganme ustedes, los que quieren estar bajo la ley: ¿por qué no le prestan atención a lo que la ley misma dice?
현대인의 성경 - 말해 보십시오. 여러분은 율법 아래 살기를 원하면서도 율법이 말하는 것을 듣지 못합니까?
Новый Русский Перевод - Скажите мне, вы, желающие быть под Законом, разве вы не слушаете Закона?
Восточный перевод - Скажите мне, вы, желающие быть под Законом, разве вы не понимаете, что говорит Закон?
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Скажите мне, вы, желающие быть под Законом, разве вы не понимаете, что говорит Закон?
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Скажите мне, вы, желающие быть под Законом, разве вы не понимаете, что говорит Закон?
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Dites-moi, vous qui voulez vivre sous le régime de la Loi, ne comprenez-vous pas ce que déclare la Loi ?
リビングバイブル - 律法を守らなければ救われない、と考えている皆さん。私のことばに耳を傾けてください。どうして律法のほんとうの意義を理解しないのですか。
Nestle Aland 28 - Λέγετέ μοι, οἱ ὑπὸ νόμον θέλοντες εἶναι, τὸν νόμον οὐκ ἀκούετε;
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - λέγετέ μοι, οἱ ὑπὸ νόμον θέλοντες εἶναι, τὸν νόμον οὐκ ἀκούετε?
Nova Versão Internacional - Digam-me vocês, os que querem estar debaixo da Lei: Acaso vocês não ouvem a Lei?
Hoffnung für alle - Ihr wollt euch also dem Gesetz unterwerfen. Wisst ihr denn eigentlich, was im Gesetz steht?
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Anh chị em đã muốn phục tùng luật pháp để được cứu rỗi, không lẽ anh chị em không biết luật pháp nói gì sao?
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ท่านที่อยากอยู่ใต้บทบัญญัติ บอกข้าพเจ้าเถิด ท่านไม่ตระหนักถึงสิ่งที่บทบัญญัติกล่าวไว้หรือ?
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - บอกข้าพเจ้าเถิดว่า ท่านที่ต้องการอยู่ภายใต้กฎบัญญัติ ท่านไม่ทราบหรือว่ากฎบัญญัติกล่าวไว้ว่าอย่างไร

John 12:34 - Voices from the crowd answered, “We heard from God’s Law that the Messiah lasts forever. How can it be necessary, as you put it, that the Son of Man ‘be lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”
Romans 10:4 - The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”
John 10:34 - Jesus said, “I’m only quoting your inspired Scriptures, where God said, ‘I tell you—you are gods.’ If God called your ancestors ‘gods’—and Scripture doesn’t lie—why do you yell, ‘Blasphemer! Blasphemer!’ at the unique One the Father consecrated and sent into the world, just because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I don’t do the things my Father does, well and good; don’t believe me. But if I am doing them, put aside for a moment what you hear me say about myself and just take the evidence of the actions that are right before your eyes. Then perhaps things will come together for you, and you’ll see that not only are we doing the same thing, we are the same—Father and Son. He is in me; I am in him.”
Matthew 21:42 - Jesus said, “Right—and you can read it for yourselves in your Bibles: The stone the masons threw out is now the cornerstone. This is God’s work; we rub our eyes, we can hardly believe it! “This is the way it is with you. God’s kingdom will be taken back from you and handed over to a people who will live out a kingdom life. Whoever stumbles on this Stone gets shattered; whoever the Stone falls on gets smashed.”
Matthew 22:29 - Jesus answered, “You’re off base on two counts: You don’t know what God said, and you don’t know how God works. At the resurrection we’re beyond marriage. As with the angels, all our ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God. And regarding your speculation on whether the dead are raised or not, don’t you read your Bibles? The grammar is clear: God says, ‘I am—not was—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.’ The living God defines himself not as the God of dead men, but of the living.” Hearing this exchange the crowd was much impressed.
Galatians 3:23 - Until the time when we were mature enough to respond freely in faith to the living God, we were carefully surrounded and protected by the Mosaic law. The law was like those Greek tutors, with which you are familiar, who escort children to school and protect them from danger or distraction, making sure the children will really get to the place they set out for.