Parallel Verses
Thomas Haweis New Testament
So we also, when we were infants, were in bondage under the first elementary principles of the world:
New American Standard Bible
So also we, while we were children, were held
King James Version
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Holman Bible
In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces
International Standard Version
It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world.
A Conservative Version
And so when we were children, we were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.
American Standard Version
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:
Amplified
So also we [whether Jews or Gentiles], when we were children (spiritually immature), were kept like slaves under the elementary [man-made religious or philosophical] teachings of the world.
An Understandable Version
So also, when we [Jews] were like children, we were under bondage to the basic worldly rules [of the law of Moses].
Anderson New Testament
So, also, we, when we were minors, were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.
Bible in Basic English
So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;
Common New Testament
So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the elemental things of the world.
Daniel Mace New Testament
even so we, whilst we were children, were in a state of servitude to the elements of the world. but when the time appointed was accomplished,
Darby Translation
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;
Goodspeed New Testament
So when we were minors, we were slaves to material ways of looking at things,
John Wesley New Testament
So we also, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
Julia Smith Translation
So also we, when we were children, were subjugated under the world's elements:
King James 2000
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Lexham Expanded Bible
So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world.
Modern King James verseion
Even so we, when we were infants, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even so we, as long as we were children, were in bondage under the ordinances of the world:
Moffatt New Testament
So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;
Montgomery New Testament
So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.
NET Bible
So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.
New Heart English Bible
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
Noyes New Testament
So also we, when we were children, were in bondage under the rudiments of the world;
Sawyer New Testament
So also we, when we were children, were in servitude under the rudiments of the world;
The Emphasized Bible
So also, we, when we were infants, under the elementary principles of the world, were held in servitude;
Twentieth Century New Testament
And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;
Webster
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Weymouth New Testament
So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.
Williams New Testament
So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions,
World English Bible
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
Worrell New Testament
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world.
Worsley New Testament
So we when we were children, were in servitude under the elements of the world:
Youngs Literal Translation
so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,
Themes
Bondage, spiritual » Is to sin
spiritual Immaturity » Necessity for tutelage
Inheritance » Who is an heir of God through Christ
Law » Christ being the end of the law
Christian Liberty » Is freedom from » Jewish ordinances
Topics
References
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 36 Translations in Galatians 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
No Longer Slaves But Sons And Heirs
2 but is under tutors and trustees until the time fixed by his father. 3 So we also, when we were infants, were in bondage under the first elementary principles of the world: 4 but when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son born of a woman, born under the law,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Galatians 2:4
but this I did because of false brethren artfully introduced, who came to pry into our liberty which we hold in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Galatians 4:9
But now after having known God, or rather being known of God, how turn ye back again to those weak and beggarly elements, to which again a second time ye desire to be in bondage?
Colossians 2:8
Beware that no man make a prey of you by means of philosophy and vain delusion, after the tradition of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ:
Colossians 2:20
If then ye have been dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye dogmatically taught,
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all who labour hard, and sustain heavy burdens, and I will give you relief.
John 8:31
Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him, If ye abide in my word, assuredly ye are my disciples;
Acts 15:10
Why then now tempt ye God, by imposing a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Romans 8:15
For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received a Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.
Galatians 3:19
To what end then was the law given? It was given on account of transgressions, until that seed should come to whom the promise was made, being delivered through the ministry of angels into the hand of a mediator.
Galatians 3:23-25
But before the faith came, we were in ward under the law, shut up together for the faith that should be revealed.
Galatians 4:25
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds with Jerusalem that now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Galatians 4:31-1
So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Hebrews 7:16
who was not made such by the law of a carnal commandment, but by the power of a life indissoluble.