Galatians 4:9
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?
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In Context
8But then, certainly, while ignorant of God, you served those who, by nature, are not gods.
10You serve the days, and months, and times, and years.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:43you will listen in heaven, in the firmament of your dwelling place. And you will do all the things, for which that foreigner will have called upon you. So may all the peoples of the earth learn to fear your name, just as your people Israel do. And so may they show that your name has been invoked over this house, which I have built.
Psalms 1:6For the Lord knows the way of the just. And the path of the impious will pass away.
Proverbs 2:5then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will discover the knowledge of God.
Habakkuk 2:14For the earth shall be filled, that they might know the glory of the Lord, like the waters spreading over the sea.
Luke 5:38Instead, the new wine is put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
John 10:27My sheep hear my voice. And I know them, and they follow 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 →