Parallel Verses
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,
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.
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;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
So we also, when we were infants, were in bondage under the first elementary principles of the world:
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 being under tutors and guardians, 'till the time prefix'd by his father. 3 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, 4 God sent forth his own son born of a woman, and subject to the law, to redeem those,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Galatians 2:4
and as to the false brethren, who insidiously crept in to spy out our liberty which we have by Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude;
Galatians 4:9
or rather that you are favoured by him, how can ye turn again to the weak and beggarly elements of the law, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
Colossians 2:8
beware lest any one seduce you by the vain illusions of philosophy, founded upon human traditions, and meer shadows, and not upon Christ:
Colossians 2:20
If then you are dead with Christ, in respect of those shadows of the Jewish state; why do ye, as if you were still in that state, submit to those ordinances?
Matthew 11:28
Believe in me, all ye that labour under oppression, and I will give you relief.
John 8:31
Jesus said therefore to those Jews who believed on him, if you adhere to my doctrine, then will you be my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth,
Acts 15:10
why therefore do you tempt God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither we nor our forefathers were able to bear?
Romans 8:15
for the spirit you have received is not servile to keep you still in fear; but it is the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, that is, father.
Galatians 3:19
"To what purpose then was the law?" it was added as a check to transgressors, till the offspring should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels with the intervention of a mediator.
Galatians 3:23-25
but before faith came, we were shut up together as prisoners under the custody of the law, 'till faith was to be revealed.
Galatians 4:25
this Agar answers to the Jerusalem now in being, for she is in servitude with her children:
Galatians 4:31-1
so then, my brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free-woman, by virtue of that freedom which Christ has procur'd for us.
Hebrews 7:16
who was not establish'd by virtue of a temporary law, but with the power of being a perpetual priest.