Galatians 4:3 - Catholic Public Domain Version So also we, when we were children, were subservient to the influences of the world. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world: Common English Bible In the same way, when we were minors, we were also enslaved by this world’s system. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world. English Standard Version 2016 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. |
Therefore, Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him: "If you will abide in my word, you will truly be my disciples.
Now therefore, why do you tempt God to impose a yoke upon the necks of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, having been sold under sin.
And you have not received, again, a spirit of servitude in fear, but you have received the Spirit of the adoption of sons, in whom we cry out: "Abba, Father!"
For you permit it when someone guides you into servitude, even if he devours you, even if he takes from you, even if he is extolled, even if he strikes you repeatedly on the face.
but only because of false brothers, who were brought in unknowingly. They entered secretly to spy on our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might reduce us to servitude.
Why, then, was there a law? It was established because of transgressions, until the offspring would arrive, to whom he made the promise, ordained by Angels through the hand of a mediator.
For he is under tutors and caretakers, until the time which was predetermined by the father.
These things are said through an allegory. For these represent the two testaments. Certainly the one, on Mount Sinai, gives birth unto servitude, which is Hagar.
For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, which is related to the Jerusalem of the present time, and it serves with her sons.
And so, brothers, we are not the sons of the servant woman, but rather of the free woman. And this is the freedom with which Christ has set us free.
But then, certainly, while ignorant of God, you served those who, by nature, are not gods.
But now, since you have known God, or rather, since you have been known by God: how can you turn away again, to weak and destitute influences, which you desire to serve anew?
So then, if you have died with Christ to the influences of this world, why do you still make decisions as if you were living in the world?
See to it that no one deceives you through philosophy and empty falsehoods, as found in the traditions of men, in accord with the influences of the world, and not in accord with Christ.
For even though it is the time when you ought to be teachers, you are still lacking, so that you must be taught the things that are the basic elements of the Word of God, and so you have been made like those who are in need of milk, and not of solid food.
who was made, not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the virtue of an indissoluble life.