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, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?

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

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed.

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

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;

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

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which 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, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?

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

who has become such not on the basis of a law of

physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.