Galatians 4:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the basic principles of the world:

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  • Gal 2:4 : 4 And that because of false brethren stealthily brought in, who came in secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly principles, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Beware lest anyone spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the basic principles of the world, and not after Christ.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations,
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
  • Gal 4:31-5:1 : 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free. 1 Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
  • Gal 3:19 : 19 Why then serves the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
  • Gal 3:23-25 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, confined unto the faith which would afterwards be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
  • John 8:31 : 31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Now therefore why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, Abba, Father.
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 Who is made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.

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

    2But is under guardians and managers until the time appointed by the father.

  • Gal 4:4-5
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    4But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

    5To redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

  • Gal 3:22-26
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    22But the Scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

    23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, confined unto the faith which would afterwards be revealed.

    24Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

    25But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

    26For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Gal 4:7-10
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    7Therefore you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

    8However, then, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.

    9But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly principles, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

    10You observe days, and months, and times, and years.

  • Gal 4:30-31
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    30Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? 'Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.'

    31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

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

    22For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman.

    23But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, but he of the freewoman was through promise.

    24These things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar.

    25For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

  • Eph 4:13-14
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    13Till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

    14That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive;

  • Eph 2:2-3
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    2In which in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:

    3Among whom also we all had our conduct in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

  • Col 2:20
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    20Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations,

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to death.

    6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

  • Gal 4:19
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    19My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

  • Rom 6:20
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    20For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

  • Rom 8:21-22
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    21Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

    22For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

  • Heb 2:15
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    15And deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4And that because of false brethren stealthily brought in, who came in secretly 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 have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;

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

  • Heb 5:12
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    12For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God; you have come to need milk and not solid food.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to infants in Christ.

    2I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you 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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    7In which you also walked at one time, when you lived in them.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7But we were gentle among you, just as a nurse cherishes her children:

  • Rom 8:15
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    15For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, Abba, Father.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

  • Col 1:13
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    13Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has transferred us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

  • 1 Pet 4:3
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    3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

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