Galatians 4:3 KJV — MannaFest

Galatians 4:3

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

KJV

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ASV

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

WEB

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

YLT

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

DBT

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;

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Galatians — Paul's gospel defended against a different gospel. Biography, then argument, then ethics — the Magna Carta of Christian liberty.

Author: Paul (1:1), no co-sender
Date: c. AD 48–49 (south-Galatia view) or c. AD 53–55 (north-Galatia view)

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18 verses on the floor

Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Colossians 2:20
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Galatians 4:9
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Galatians 2:4
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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It is not, as in earthly inheritances, the death of the father, but our Father's sovereign will simply that makes us heirs. child--Greek, "one under age." differeth nothing, &c.--that is, has no more freedom than a slave (so the Greek for "servant" means).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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G3753103× in canon G2889185× in canon G3779208× in canon G5259219× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

GAL 4:3COL 2:8 1TI 6:20
GAL 4:3COL 2:8 EPH 5:6
GAL 4:3COL 2:8 MAT 7:15
GAL 4:3COL 2:8 GAL 4:9
GAL 4:3GAL 2:4 GAL 5:1
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GAL 4:3COL 2:8 1CO 3:18-19
GAL 4:3GAL 4:9 1CO 8:3
GAL 4:3COL 2:20 COL 2:8

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