Galatians 4:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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?

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  • 1 Cor 8:3 : 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
  • Gal 3:3 : 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?
  • Heb 7:18 : 18 For there is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness.
  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, to condemn sin in the flesh.
  • Rom 8:29 : 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
  • Eph 1:17 : 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him:
  • Col 2:20-23 : 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, 21 "Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle," 22 Which all concern things which perish with the using, according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity."
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know just as I also am known.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Exod 33:17 : 17 And the LORD said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken: for you have found grace in my sight, and I know you by name.
  • 1 Kgs 8:43 : 43 Hear in heaven your dwelling place, and act according to all that the stranger calls to you for: that all people of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have built, is called by your name.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
  • Ps 1:6 : 6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 And those who know your name will put their trust in you; for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
  • Prov 2:5 : 5 Then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
  • Hab 2:14 : 14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son will reveal him.
  • John 10:14 : 14 I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and am known by my own.
  • John 10:27 : 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life, that they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

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