21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
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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.
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. …
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. …
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.
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-31)In these verses the apostle illustrates the difference between believers who rested in Christ only and those judaizers who trusted in the law, by a comparison taken from the story of Isaac and Ishmael. This he introduces in such a manner as was proper to strike and impress their minds, and to convince them of their great weakness in departing from the truth, and suffering themselves to be deprived…
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