Galatians 4:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

Euen so, we when wee were children, were in bondage vnder the rudiments of the world.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 2:4 : 4 To wit, for the false brethren which were craftily sent in, and crept in priuily to spie out our libertie, which we haue in Christ Iesus, that they might bring vs into bondage.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now seeing ye knowe God, yea, rather are knowen of God, howe turne ye againe vnto impotent and beggerly rudiments, whereunto as from the beginning ye wil be in bondage againe?
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Beware lest there be any man that spoile you through philosophie, & vaine deceit, through the traditions of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ fro the ordinances of the world, why, as though ye liued in ye world, are ye burdened with traditions?
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 (For Agar or Sina is a mountaine in Arabia, and it answereth to Hierusalem which nowe is) and she is in bondage with her children.
  • Gal 4:31-5:1 : 31 Then brethren, we are not children of the seruant, but of the free woman. 1 Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.
  • Gal 3:19 : 19 Wherefore then serueth the Law? It was added because of the transgressions, til the seed came, vnto the which the promise was made: and it was ordeined by Angels in the hande of a Mediatour.
  • Gal 3:23-25 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept vnder the Law, as vnder a garison, and shut vp vnto that faith, which should afterward be reueiled. 24 Wherefore the Lawe was our scholemaster to bring vs to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer vnder a scholemaster.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come vnto me, all ye that are wearie and laden, and I will ease you.
  • John 8:31 : 31 Then saide Iesus to the Iewes which beleeued in him, If ye continue in my worde, ye are verely my disciples,
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Nowe therefore, why tempt ye God, to lay a yoke on the disciples neckes, which neither our fathers, nor we were able to beare?
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For ye haue not receiued the Spirit of bodage, to feare againe: but ye haue receiued the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father.
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 Which is not made Priest after the Law of the carnal commandement, but after the power of the endlesse life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 4:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1Then I say, that the heire as long as hee is a childe, differeth nothing fro a seruant, though he be Lord of all,

    2But is vnder tutours and gouernours, vntil the time appointed of the Father.

  • Gal 4:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    4But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe,

    5That hee might redeeme them which were vnder the Law, that we might receiue the adoption of the sonnes.

  • Gal 3:22-26
    5 verses
    75%

    22But the Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne, that the promes by the faith of Iesus Christ should be giuen to them that beleeue.

    23But before faith came, we were kept vnder the Law, as vnder a garison, and shut vp vnto that faith, which should afterward be reueiled.

    24Wherefore the Lawe was our scholemaster to bring vs to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

    25But after that faith is come, we are no longer vnder a scholemaster.

    26For ye are al the sonnes of God by faith, in Christ Iesus.

  • Gal 4:7-10
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    75%

    7Wherefore, thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne: now if thou be a sone, thou art also the heire of God through Christ.

    8But euen then, when ye knewe not God, yee did seruice vnto them, which by nature are not gods:

    9But now seeing ye knowe God, yea, rather are knowen of God, howe turne ye againe vnto impotent and beggerly rudiments, whereunto as from the beginning ye wil be in bondage againe?

    10Ye obserue dayes, and moneths, and times and yeeres.

  • Gal 4:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    30But what sayth the Scripture? Put out the seruant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.

    31Then brethren, we are not children of the seruant, but of the free woman.

  • Gal 4:21-25
    5 verses
    72%

    21Tell me, ye that will be vnder the Law, doe ye not heare the Lawe?

    22For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, one by a seruant, and one by a free woman.

    23But he which was of the seruant, was borne after the flesh: and he which was of the free woman, was borne by promes.

    24By the which things another thing is ment: for these mothers are the two testaments, the one which is Agar of mount Sina, which gendreth vnto bondage.

    25(For Agar or Sina is a mountaine in Arabia, and it answereth to Hierusalem which nowe is) and she is in bondage with her children.

  • Eph 4:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13Till we all meete together (in the vnitie of faith and that acknowledging of the Sonne of God) vnto a perfite man, and vnto the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christ,

    14That we henceforth be no more children, wauering and caried about with euery winde of doctrine, by the deceit of men, and with craftines, whereby they lay in wait to deceiue.

  • Eph 2:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Wherein, in times past ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the prince that ruleth in the aire, euen the spirite, that nowe worketh in the children of disobedience,

    3Among whom we also had our conuersation in time past, in the lustes of our flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the minde, and were by nature the children of wrath, as well as others.

  • Col 2:20
    71%

    20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ fro the ordinances of the world, why, as though ye liued in ye world, are ye burdened with traditions?

  • Gal 5:1
    70%

    1Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For when we were in ye flesh, the affections of sinnes, which were by the Law, had force in our members, to bring foorth fruit vnto death.

    6But now we are deliuered from the Lawe, he being dead in whom we were holden, that we should serue in newnesse of Spirite, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    11When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstoode as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish thinges.

  • Gal 4:19
    69%

    19My litle children, of whome I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ be formed in you.

  • Rom 6:20
    69%

    20For when ye were the seruants of sinne, ye were freed from righteousnesse.

  • Rom 8:21-22
    2 verses
    68%

    21Because the creature also shall be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God.

    22For we knowe that euery creature groneth with vs also, and trauaileth in paine together vnto this present.

  • Heb 2:15
    68%

    15And that he might deliuer all them, which for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage.

  • Gal 2:4
    68%

    4To wit, for the false brethren which were craftily sent in, and crept in priuily to spie out our libertie, which we haue in Christ Iesus, that they might bring vs into bondage.

  • Gal 4:28
    68%

    28Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promes.

  • Heb 12:9
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    9Moreouer we haue had the fathers of our bodies which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: should we not much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites, that we might liue?

  • 1 Pet 1:14
    68%

    14As obedient children, not fashioning your selues vnto the former lustes of your ignorance:

  • Titus 3:3
    68%

    3For wee our selues also were in times past vnwise, disobedient, deceiued, seruing the lustes and diuers pleasures, liuing in maliciousnes and enuie, hatefull, and hating one another:

  • Heb 5:12
    67%

    12For when as concerning ye time ye ought to be teachers, yet haue ye neede againe that we teach you what are the first principles of the worde of God: and are become such as haue neede of milke, and not of strong meate.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1And I could not speake vnto you, brethren, as vnto spirituall men, but as vnto carnall, euen as vnto babes in Christ.

    2I gaue you milke to drinke, & not meat: for yee were not yet able to beare it, neither yet nowe are yee able.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.

  • Col 3:7
    67%

    7Wherein ye also walked once, when ye liued in them.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7But we were gentle among you, euen as a nource cherisheth her children.

  • Rom 8:15
    67%

    15For ye haue not receiued the Spirit of bodage, to feare againe: but ye haue receiued the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brethren, be not children in vnderstanding, but as concerning maliciousnes be children, but in vnderstanding be of a ripe age.

  • Col 1:13
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    13Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne,

  • 1 Pet 4:3
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    3For it is sufficient for vs that we haue spet the time past of ye life, after the lust of the Gentiles, walking in wantonnes, lustes, drunkenes, in gluttonie, drinkings, & in abominable idolatries.

  • Gal 5:18
    66%

    18And if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not vnder the Lawe.