Galatians 4:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

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  • Gal 2:4 : 4 and `that' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?
  • Col 2:8 : 8 See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now `is', and is in servitude with her children,
  • Gal 4:31-5:1 : 31 then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's. 1 In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
  • Gal 3:19 : 19 Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --
  • Gal 3:23-25 : 23 And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed, 24 so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous, 25 and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,
  • John 8:31 : 31 Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba -- Father.'
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

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    1And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,

    2but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,

  • Gal 4:4-5
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    4and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

    5that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;

  • Gal 3:22-26
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    22but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

    23And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

    24so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

    25and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,

    26for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

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    7so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

    8But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

    9and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

    10days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!

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    30but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'

    31then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

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    21Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

    22for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

    23but he who `is' of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who `is' of the free-woman, through the promise;

    24which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;

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    13till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

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    2in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

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  • Col 2:20
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    20If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

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    1In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

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    5for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

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    19my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

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    20for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

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    21that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

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    15and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,

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    4and `that' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

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    28And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

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    9Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

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    3for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

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    12for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

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    1And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

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    14for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

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    7in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;

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    7But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

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    13who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate `us' into the reign of the Son of His love,

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    3for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

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    18and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.