Galatians 4:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments 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 unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

John 8:31

Jesus therefore said to those Jews which had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples;

Acts 15:10

Now therefore why tempt ye God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Romans 8:15

For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.

Galatians 2:4

and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Galatians 3:19

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Galatians 4:2

but is under guardians and stewards until the term appointed of the father.

Galatians 4:24

Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.

Galatians 4:25

Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.

Galatians 4:31

Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.

Galatians 4:8

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them which by nature are no gods:

Galatians 4:9

but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known of God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

Colossians 2:20

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

Colossians 2:8

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

Hebrews 5:12

For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Hebrews 7:16

who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life: