Galatians 4:9

New English Translation

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?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:43

Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, Solomon my son, obey the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit, for the Lord examines all minds and understands every motive of one’s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him, but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.

Psalm 1:6

Certainly the Lord guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

Psalm 9:10

Your loyal followers trust in you, for you, Lord, do not abandon those who seek your help.

Exodus 33:17

The Lord said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Proverbs 2:5

then you will understand how to fear the Lord, and you will discover knowledge about God.

Jeremiah 31:34

“People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the Lord. “For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”

Habakkuk 2:14

For recognition of the Lord’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.

Matthew 11:27

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

Luke 5:38

Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

John 10:14

“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me –

John 10:27

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

Romans 8:29

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

Romans 8:3

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. 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 in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God – I say this to your shame!

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

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.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

Galatians 3:3

Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

Galatians 4:3

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

Ephesians 1:17

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

2 Timothy 2:19

However, God’s solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil.”

Hebrews 7:18

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

2 Peter 2:20

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.