Galatians 4:3

English Standard Version 2016

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

Cross References

Colossians 2:20

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Galatians 4:9

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

Galatians 2:4

Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—

Galatians 4:31

So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.

Acts 15:10

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

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

John 8:31

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

Hebrews 7:16

who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.

Galatians 4:25

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

Galatians 3:19

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Romans 7:14

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

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.

Galatians 4:2

but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

Galatians 4:8

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

Galatians 4:24

Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.

Hebrews 5:12

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