Galatians 4:3

American Standard Version (1901)

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

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  • Gal 2:4 : 4 and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily 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 ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.
  • Gal 4:31-5:1 : 31 Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman. 1 For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
  • Gal 3:19 : 19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; [and it was] ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
  • Gal 3:23-25 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 So that the law is become our tutor [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
  • John 8:31 : 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, [then] are ye truly my disciples;
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

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  • Gal 4:1-2
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    1But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;

    2but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.

  • Gal 4:4-5
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    4but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

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

  • Gal 3:22-26
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    22But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

    23But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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

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

    26For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus.

  • Gal 4:7-10
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    7So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

    8Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

    9but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

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

  • Gal 4:30-31
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    30Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.

    31Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.

  • Gal 4:21-25
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    21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

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

    23Howbeit the [son] by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the [son] by the freewoman [is born] through promise.

    24Which things contain an allegory: for these [women] are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.

    25Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.

  • Eph 4:13-14
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    13till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

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

  • Eph 2:2-3
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    2wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

    3among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

  • Col 2:20
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    20If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

  • Gal 5:1
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    1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

    6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

  • Gal 4:19
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    19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

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    20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

  • Rom 8:21-22
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    21that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

    22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

  • Heb 2:15
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    15and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

  • Gal 4:28
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    28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

  • Heb 12:9
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    9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

  • Heb 5:12
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    12For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

    2I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it] : nay, not even now are ye able;

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  • Col 3:7
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    7wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

  • Rom 8:15
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    15For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

  • Col 1:13
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    13who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

  • 1 Pet 4:3
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    3For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

  • Gal 5:18
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    18But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.