Galatians 4:3

New Century Version

It is the same for us. We were once like children, slaves to the useless rules of this world.

Cross References

Matthew 11:28

“Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest.

John 8:31

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, “If you continue to obey my teaching, you are truly my followers.

Acts 15:10

So now why are you testing God by putting a heavy load around the necks of the non-Jewish believers? It is a load that neither we nor our ancestors were able to carry.

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not spiritual since sin rules me as if I were its slave.

Romans 8:15

The Spirit we received does not make us slaves again to fear; it makes us children of God. With that Spirit we cry out, “Father.”

2 Corinthians 11:20

You are even patient with those who order you around, or use you, or trick you, or think they are better than you, or hit you in the face.

Galatians 2:4

We talked about this problem because some false believers had come into our group secretly. They came in like spies to overturn the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. They wanted to make us slaves.

Galatians 3:19

So what was the law for? It was given to show that the wrong things people do are against God’s will. And it continued until the special descendant, who had been promised, came. The law was given through angels who used Moses for a mediator to give the law to people.

Galatians 4:2

While they are children, they must obey those who are chosen to care for them. But when the children reach the age set by their fathers, they are free.

Galatians 4:24

This story teaches something else: The two women are like the two agreements between God and his people. One agreement is the law that God made on Mount Sinai, and the people who are under this agreement are like slaves. The mother named Hagar is like that agreement.

Galatians 4:25

She is like Mount Sinai in Arabia and is a picture of the earthly city of Jerusalem. This city and its people are slaves to the law.

Galatians 4:31

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

Galatians 4:8

In the past you did not know God. You were slaves to gods that were not real.

Galatians 4:9

But now you know the true God. Really, it is God who knows you. So why do you turn back to those weak and useless rules you followed before? Do you want to be slaves to those things again?

Colossians 2:20

Since you died with Christ and were made free from the ruling spirits of the world, why do you act as if you still belong to this world by following rules like these:

Colossians 2:8

Be sure that no one leads you away with false and empty teaching that is only human, which comes from the ruling spirits of this world, and not from Christ.

Hebrews 5:12

By now you should be teachers, but you need someone to teach you again the first lessons of God’s message. You still need the teaching that is like milk. You are not ready for solid food.

Hebrews 7:16

He was not made a priest by human rules and laws but through the power of his life, which continues forever.