Galatians 4:3
So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
In Context
2But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.
4But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Cross References
Matthew 11:28Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.
Acts 15:10Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
Galatians 2:4And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;
Galatians 3:23But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.
Galatians 4:25Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.
Colossians 2:8Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:2-8
The Redemption by Christ. ( a. d. 56.) 1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6 And… Read the whole commentary →