Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions,
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;
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.
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 he is under guardians and trustees until the time fixed by the father. 3 So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions, 4 but when the proper time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to law,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Galatians 2:4
they did not try it even for the sake of the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who stole in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to make us slaves again.
Galatians 4:9
but now, since you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them again?
Colossians 2:8
Take care that nobody captures you by the idle fancies of his so-called philosophy, following human tradition and the world's crude notions instead of Christ.
Colossians 2:20
If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all of you who toil and carry burdens, and I, yes, I, will lead you into rest.
John 8:31
So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,
Acts 15:10
Then why do you now try to test God by putting on these disciples' necks a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we could bear?
Romans 8:15
For you do not have a sense of servitude to fill you with dread again, but the consciousness of adopted sons by which we cry, "Abba," that is, "Father."
Galatians 3:19
Then what about the law? It was added later on to increase transgressions, until the descendant to whom the promise was made should come, enacted through the agency of angels in the person of an intermediary.
Galatians 3:23-25
But before this faith came, we were kept locked up under the law, in preparation for the faith which was to be unveiled.
Galatians 4:25
that is, Hagar (and Hagar means Mount Sinai, in Arabia) and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is in slavery with her children.
Galatians 4:31-1
So, brothers, we are children, not of a slave girl but of a free woman.
Hebrews 7:16
who is appointed not on the basis of a physical qualification but on the basis of a power flowing from a life that cannot end.