Galatians 4:3

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Summary

Galatians 4:3

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

When

Galatians 3:19

In

Elements

Galatians 4:9

Colossians 2:8

Hebrews 7:16

Bible References

When

Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

In

But 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 worthless elemental things? Do you desire to be enslaved all over again?

But it was because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who had slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage.

Now before faith came, we were bound under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.

It was for freedom that Christ has set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples.

Now therefore why do you test God by putting upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

Elements

But 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 worthless elemental things? Do you desire to be enslaved all over again?

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to human tradition, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

who has become a priest not on the basis of a law of carnal requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.