Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
8But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:
10You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:43Give ear in heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have put up is truly named by your name.
Psalms 1:6Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
Proverbs 2:5Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
Habakkuk 2:14For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.
Luke 5:38But new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.
John 10:27My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:9-12
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. 9 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? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. In these verses the apostle puts them in mind of what they were before their conversion to the… Read the whole commentary →