Galatians 4:3

World English Bible (2000)

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

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  • Gal 2:4 : 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
  • Gal 4:31-5:1 : 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman. 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
  • Gal 3:19 : 19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
  • Gal 3:23-25 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
  • John 8:31 : 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

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    1But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

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  • Gal 4:4-5
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    4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

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  • Gal 3:22-26
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    22But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

    23But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

    24So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

    25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

    26For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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    7So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

    8However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

    9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

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  • Gal 4:30-31
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    30However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."

    31So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

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    21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

    22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

    23However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

    24These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

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    13until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

    14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

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    2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

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    21that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

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    15and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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    4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

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    28Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

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    9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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    14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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    1Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

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    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

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    7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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    15For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

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    20Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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    18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.