Galatians 4:3

When we were children, we too were held in bondage. We were slaves to the arrangement of this world.

Galatians 2:4

This occurred because of the false brothers brought in secretly. They came to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus. This was so they might bring us into bondage.

Galatians 4:9

Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and poor fundamental things? Do you want to slave for them all over again?

See to it that no one enslaves you by means of philosophy and worthless deceit of human wisdom according to tradition of men. It is according to the elementary principles of the world, and not from Christ.

Colossians 2:20

If you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances:

Matthew 11:28

Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

John 8:31

Jesus told the Jews who believed him: If you dwell in my word you truly are my disciples.

Acts 15:10

Why do you test God by placing a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, one that our fathers were not able to bear?

Romans 8:15

For you have not received a spirit of bondage again causing fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Father, Father! (Chaldee: Abba, meaning father).

Galatians 3:19

What then is the law? It was added (to cause awareness of sin) because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Galatians 3:23-25

But before faith came the Law held us in custody. We were locked up until faith was revealed.

Galatians 4:25

Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She corresponds to the Jerusalem that now is. She is in bondage with her children.

Galatians 4:31-1

Brothers, we are not children of a slave woman but of the free woman.

Hebrews 7:16

He would become such, not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Galatians 4:3

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

When

Galatians 3:19

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Elements

Galatians 4:9

Colossians 2:8

Hebrews 7:16

Bible References

When

In

Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and poor fundamental things? Do you want to slave for them all over again?

This occurred because of the false brothers brought in secretly. They came to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus. This was so they might bring us into bondage.

But before faith came the Law held us in custody. We were locked up until faith was revealed.

Christ liberated us for freedom (moral liberty). Stand fast therefore, and do not become entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Jesus told the Jews who believed him: If you dwell in my word you truly are my disciples.

Why do you test God by placing a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, one that our fathers were not able to bear?

For you have not received a spirit of bondage again causing fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Father, Father! (Chaldee: Abba, meaning father).

Elements

Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and poor fundamental things? Do you want to slave for them all over again?

He would become such, not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.