Galatians 4:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental principles of the world.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ So we [Jewish Christians] also, when we were minors, were kept like slaves under [the rules of the Hebrew ritual and subject to] the elementary teachings of a system of external observations and regulations.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

Common English Bible

³ In the same way, when we were minors, we were also enslaved by this world’s system.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ So also we, when we were children, were subservient to the influences of the world.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.

Galatians 4:3 Cross References

Matthew 11:28

“Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

John 8:31

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples,

Acts 15:10

Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it when someone makes slaves of you or preys upon you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or gives you a slap in the face.

Galatians 2:4

But because of false brothers and sisters secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us—

Galatians 3:19

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.

Galatians 4:2

but they remain under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father.

Galatians 4:24

Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One woman, in fact, is Hagar, from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery.

Galatians 4:25

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

Galatians 4:31

So then, brothers and sisters, we are children, not of an enslaved woman but of the free woman.

Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.

Galatians 4:9

Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental principles? How can you want to be enslaved to them again?

Colossians 2:20

If with Christ you died to the elemental principles of the world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,

Colossians 2:8

Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

Hebrews 5:12

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,

Hebrews 7:16

one who has become a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent but through the power of an indestructible life.