Galatians 4:3 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 更多版本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. Catholic Public Domain Version So also we, when we were children, were subservient to the influences of the world. 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. |
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
and that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.