Galatians 4:3
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Context
This verse from Galatians Chapter 4 connects to 10 cross-references. The heir who is a child is no different from a slave. But when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, so that we …
Other Translations
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:
so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,
So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;
Cross References
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers …
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke …
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with …
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the …
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise …