Galatians 4:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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?

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  • 1 Cor 8:3 : 3 and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.
  • Gal 3:3 : 3 so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?
  • Heb 7:18 : 18 for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,
  • Rom 8:3 : 3 for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,
  • Rom 8:29 : 29 because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,' 39 and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; 4 he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may 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 the life age-during!
  • Eph 1:17 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,
  • Col 2:20-23 : 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? 21 -- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle -- 22 which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men, 23 which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.'
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say `it'.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Exod 33:17 : 17 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Even this thing which thou hast spoken I do; for thou hast found grace in Mine eyes, and I know thee by name.'
  • 1 Kgs 8:43 : 43 Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thy people Israel, and to know that Thy name hath been called on this house which I have builded.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 `And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.
  • Ps 1:6 : 6 For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 They trust in Thee who do know Thy name, For Thou hast not forsaken Those seeking Thee, O Jehovah.
  • Prov 2:5 : 5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.
  • Hab 2:14 : 14 For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover `the bottom of' a sea.
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 `All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal `Him'.
  • John 10:14 : 14 `I am the good shepherd, and I know my `sheep', and am known by mine,
  • John 10:27 : 27 according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,
  • John 17:3 : 3 and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;

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  • Gal 4:7-8
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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,

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

  • 3so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

  • 9for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

  • Gal 3:1-4
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    1O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

    2this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?

    3so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?

    4so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.

  • 2ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

  • 17This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

  • 16So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

  • Eph 4:20-22
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    20and ye did not so learn the Christ,

    21if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

    22ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

  • 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,

  • 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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    19liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

    20for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

    21for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged `it', to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

  • 5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

  • 4ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

  • 6I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

  • 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?

  • 14as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

  • Rom 6:16-17
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    16have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

    17and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

  • 13and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

  • 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,

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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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,

    4in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • 8See 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,

  • 17Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,

  • 18and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

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    1As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

    2for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

  • 18having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

  • 14that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

  • 14for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

  • 3and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

  • 14And thou -- be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn,

  • Rom 6:20-22
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    20for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

    21what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those `is' death.

    22And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

  • 4having known, brethren beloved, by God, your election,

  • 10and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

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

  • 10And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,

  • 6and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

  • 7Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?