Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even so we, as long as we were children, were in bondage under the ordinances 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.
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 but is under tutors and governors, until the time appointed of the father. 3 Even so we, as long as we were children, were in bondage under the ordinances of the world: 4 But when the time was full come, God sent his son - born of a woman, and made bond unto the law -
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Galatians 2:4
and that because of incomers, being false brethren, which came in among others to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.
Galatians 4:9
But now, seeing ye know God - yea rather are known of God - how is it that ye turn again unto the weak and beggarly ceremonies, whereunto again ye desire afresh to be in bondage?
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man come and spoil you through philosophy and deceitful vanity, through the traditions of men, and ordinances after the world, and not after Christ.
Colossians 2:20
Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from ordinances of the world: Why as though ye yet lived in the world, are ye led with traditions of them that say
Matthew 11:28
Come unto me all ye that labor, and are laden, and I will ease you.
John 8:31
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, "If ye continue in my words, then are ye my very disciples:
Acts 15:10
Now therefore, why tempt ye God, that ye would put a yoke on the disciples necks which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Romans 8:15
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage to fear anymore, but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, "Abba father."
Galatians 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the law? The law was added because of transgression - till the seed came, to which the promise was made - and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Galatians 3:23-25
Before that faith came, we were kept and shut up under the law, unto the faith which should afterward be declared.
Galatians 4:25
- For mount Sinai is called Hagar in Arabia, and bordereth upon the city which is now Jerusalem - and is in bondage with her children.
Galatians 4:31-1
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman: but of the freewoman.
Hebrews 7:16
which is not made after the law of the carnal commandment: but after the power of the endless life.