Galatians 4:3

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So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

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  • Gal 2:4 : 4 Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to know God(or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
  • Gal 4:31-5:1 : 31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman. 1 Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.
  • Gal 3:19 : 19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.
  • Gal 3:23-25 : 23 Sons of God Are Heirs of Promise Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed. 24 Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
  • John 8:31 : 31 Abraham’s Children and the Devil’s Children Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him,“If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

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  • Gal 4:1-2
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    1Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

    2But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

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

    5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

  • Gal 3:22-26
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    22But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given– because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ– to those who believe.

    23Sons of God Are Heirs of Promise Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.

    24Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

    25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

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

  • Gal 4:7-10
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    7So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

    8Heirs of Promise Are Not to Return to Law Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

    9But now that you have come to know God(or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

    10You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.

  • Gal 4:30-31
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    30But what does the scripture say?“Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman.

    31Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

  • Gal 4:21-25
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    21An Appeal from Allegory Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

    22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

    23But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

    24These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.

    25Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

  • Eph 4:13-14
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    13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

    14So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

  • Eph 2:2-3
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    2in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

    3among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

  • Col 2:20
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    20If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

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    11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.

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    19My children– I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

  • Rom 6:20
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    20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

  • Rom 8:21-22
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    21that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

    22For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

  • Heb 2:15
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    15and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

  • Gal 4:28
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    28But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

  • Heb 12:9
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    9Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

  • Heb 5:12
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    12For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1Immaturity and Self-deception So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

    2I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

  • Col 3:7
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    7You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,

  • Rom 8:15
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    15For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”

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    20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

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    13He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

  • 1 Pet 4:3
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    3For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

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