Galatians 4:3

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;

Cross References

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all you who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest!

John 8:31

So Jesus went on to say to those Jews who had believed him: "If you remain constant to my Message, you are truly my disciples;

Acts 15:10

Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear?

Romans 7:14

We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly-sold into slavery to Sin.

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a son which leads us to cry 'Abba, Our Father.'

2 Corinthians 11:20

You tolerate a man even when he enslaves you, when he plunders you, when he gets you into his power, when he puts on airs of superiority, when he strikes you in the face!

Galatians 2:4

But, on account of the false Brothers who had stolen in, the men who had crept in to spy upon the liberty which we have through union with Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back to slavery--

Galatians 3:19

What, then, you ask, was the use of the Law? It was a later addition, to make men conscious of their wrong-doings, and intended to last only till the coming of that 'offspring' to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator.

Galatians 4:2

He is subject to the control of guardians and stewards, during the period for which his father has power to appoint them.

Galatians 4:24

This story may be taken as an allegory. The women stand for two Covenants. One Covenant, given from Mount Sinai, produces a race of slaves and is represented by Hagar

Galatians 4:25

(The word Hagar meaning in Arabia Mount Sinai) and it ranks with the Jerusalem of to-day, for she and her children are in slavery.

Galatians 4:31

And so, Brothers, we are not children of a slave, but of her who is free.

Galatians 4:8

Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to 'gods' which were no gods.

Galatians 4:9

But now that you have found God--or, rather, have been found by him--how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?

Colossians 2:20

Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world,

Colossians 2:8

Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his 'philosophy'--a hollow sham!--following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.

Hebrews 5:12

For whereas, considering the time that has elapsed, you ought to be teaching others, you still need some one to teach you the very alphabet of the Divine Revelation, and need again to be fed with 'milk' instead of with 'solid food.'

Hebrews 7:16

and that he was appointed, not under a Law regulating only earthly matters, but by virtue of a life beyond the reach of death;