Galatians 4:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

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  • Gal 2:4 : 4 And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.
  • Gal 4:31-5:1 : 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman. 1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.
  • Gal 3:19 : 19 What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.
  • Gal 3:23-25 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come. 24 So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith. 25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.
  • John 8:31 : 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

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  • Gal 4:1-2
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    1 But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

    2 But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.

  • Gal 4:4-5
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    4 But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

    5 That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.

  • Gal 3:22-26
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    22 However, the holy Writings have put all things under sin, so that that for which God gave the undertaking, based on faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who have such faith.

    23 But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.

    24 So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

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

    26 Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Gal 4:7-10
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    7 So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

    8 But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

    9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

    10 You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.

  • Gal 4:30-31
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    30 What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.

    31 So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

  • Gal 4:21-25
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    21 Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

    22 Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman.

    23 Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

    24 Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar.

    25 Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.

  • Eph 4:13-14
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    13 Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:

    14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

  • Eph 2:2-3
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    2 In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

    3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

  • Col 2:20
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    20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

  • Gal 5:1
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    1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

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    11 When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

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    19 My children, of whom I am again in birth-pains till Christ is formed in you,

  • Rom 6:20
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    20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

  • Rom 8:21-22
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    21 That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.

    22 For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

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    15 And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.

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    4 And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

  • Gal 4:28
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    28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

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    9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14 Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

  • Titus 3:3
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    3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

  • Heb 5:12
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    12 And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1 And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

    2 I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

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    14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

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    7 Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

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    7 But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

  • Rom 8:15
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    15 For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

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    20 My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

  • Col 1:13
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    13 Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

  • 1 Pet 4:3
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    3 Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

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