Galatians 4:3

New English Translation

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

Cross References

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

John 8:31

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

Acts 15:10

So now 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 unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.”

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

Galatians 2:4

Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

Galatians 3:19

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.

Galatians 4:2

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

Galatians 4:24

These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.

Galatians 4:25

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

Galatians 4:31

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave 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 at all.

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 basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Colossians 2:20

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

Colossians 2:8

Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Hebrews 5:12

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

Hebrews 7:16

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.