Galatians 4:9

Modern English Version

But now, after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and worthless elemental forces to which you desire again to be in bondage?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:43

may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and do all that the foreigner asks of You, so all people of the earth will know Your name, to fear You as Your people Israel do, and that they may know that this house, which I have built, is called by Your name.

1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your fathers and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing spirit, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will abandon you forever.

Psalm 1:6

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Psalm 9:10

Those who know Your name will put their trust in You, for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

Exodus 33:17

The Lord said to Moses, “I will do this thing of which you have spoken, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”

Proverbs 2:5

then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Jeremiah 31:34

They shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,” for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Habakkuk 2:14

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the seas.

Matthew 11:27

“All things are delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son, except the Father. And no one knows the Father, except the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal Him.

Luke 5:38

But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

John 10:14

“I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and am known by My own.

John 10:27

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

John 17:3

This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

Romans 8:29

For those whom He foreknew, He predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 8:3

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see as through a glass, dimly, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I also am known.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Awake to righteousness and do not sin, for some do not have the knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you permit it if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes from you, if a man exalts himself, or if a man strikes you on the face.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 3:3

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

Galatians 4:3

So when we were children, we were in bondage to the elements of the world.

Ephesians 1:17

so that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

2 Timothy 2:19

But the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who calls on the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”

Hebrews 7:18

For there is then an annulling of the previous commandment due to its weakness and uselessness.

2 Peter 2:20

For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true —His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.