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

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

In

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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

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

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

Elements

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life: