Galatians 4:3 - Revised Standard Version

³ So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ So we [Jewish Christians] also, when we were minors, were kept like slaves under [the rules of the Hebrew ritual and subject to] the elementary teachings of a system of external observations and regulations.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

Common English Bible

³ In the same way, when we were minors, we were also enslaved by this world’s system.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ So also we, when we were children, were subservient to the influences of the world.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.

Galatians 4:3 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

John 8:31

Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples,

Acts 15:10

Now therefore why do you make trial of God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you bear it if a man makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.

Galatians 2:4

But because of false brethren secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage—

Galatians 3:19

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained by angels through an intermediary.

Galatians 4:2

but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father.

Galatians 4:24

Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.

Galatians 4:25

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

Galatians 4:31

So, brethren, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.

Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings that by nature are no gods;

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 beggarly elemental spirits, whose slaves you want to be once more?

Colossians 2:20

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.

Hebrews 5:12

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;

Hebrews 7:16

who has become a priest, not according to a legal requirement concerning bodily descent but by the power of an indestructible life.