Galatians 4:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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?

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 8:3 : 3 But if someone loves God, he is known by God.
  • Gal 3:3 : 3 Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?
  • Heb 7:18 : 18 On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,
  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
  • Rom 8:29 : 29 because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments. 4 The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • Eph 1:17 : 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,
  • Col 2:20-23 : 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? 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!” 22 These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings. 23 Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 However, God’s solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal:“The Lord knows those who are his,” and“Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil.”
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God– I say this to your shame!
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
  • Exod 33:17 : 17 The LORD said to Moses,“I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
  • 1 Kgs 8:43 : 43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 “And you, Solomon my son, obey the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit, for the LORD examines all minds and understands every motive of one’s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him, but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.
  • Ps 1:6 : 6 Certainly the LORD guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 Your loyal followers trust in you, for you, LORD, do not abandon those who seek your help.
  • Prov 2:5 : 5 then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the LORD.“For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”
  • Hab 2:14 : 14 For recognition of the LORD’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
  • John 10:14 : 14 “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me–
  • John 10:27 : 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gal 4:7-8
    2 verses
    87%

    7 So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

    8 Heirs 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.

  • Gal 4:10
    80%

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

  • Gal 4:3
    75%

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

  • 1 Thess 1:9
    73%

    9 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

  • Gal 3:1-4
    4 verses
    73%

    1 Justification by Law or by Faith? You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

    2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

    3 Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

    4 Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.

  • 1 Cor 12:2
    73%

    2 You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

  • Eph 4:17
    72%

    17 Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

  • 2 Cor 5:16
    72%

    16 So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

  • Eph 4:20-22
    3 verses
    72%

    20 But you did not learn about Christ like this,

    21 if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

    22 You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

  • Heb 5:12
    72%

    12 For 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.

  • Gal 5:1
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Pet 2:19-21
    3 verses
    71%

    19 Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

    20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

    21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
    71%

    5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • Gal 5:4
    71%

    4 You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

  • Gal 1:6
    71%

    6 Occasion of the Letter I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel–

  • Col 2:20
    70%

    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?

  • 1 Pet 1:14
    70%

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

  • Rom 6:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

    17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,

  • Gal 4:13
    70%

    13 Personal Appeal of Paul But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

  • Gal 2:4
    70%

    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.

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 For 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.

    4 So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • Col 2:8
    70%

    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.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
    69%

    17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard that you do not get led astray by the error of these unprincipled men and fall from your firm grasp on the truth.

  • Rom 2:18
    69%

    18 and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

  • 1 Thess 4:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 A Life Pleasing to God Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God(as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.

    2 For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

  • 1 Pet 1:18
    69%

    18 You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold,

  • Eph 4:14
    69%

    14 So 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.

  • 1 Thess 2:14
    69%

    14 For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

  • 1 Cor 8:3
    69%

    3 But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

  • 2 Tim 3:14
    69%

    14 You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

  • Rom 6:20-22
    3 verses
    69%

    20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

    21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

    22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

  • 1 Thess 1:4
    68%

    4 We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you,

  • Col 3:10
    68%

    10 and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

  • Gal 4:21
    68%

    21 An Appeal from Allegory Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

  • 2 Tim 3:10
    68%

    10 Continue in What You Have Learned You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

  • Rom 7:6
    68%

    6 But 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.

  • Gal 5:7
    68%

    7 You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?

Created by Digify•Powered by SQLExpert
© 2025 Bibelvers. All rights reserved.