Galatians 4:8
But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
In Context
7So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.
Cross References
Joshua 24:2And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.
2 Chronicles 13:9Have ye not cast out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests as the peoples of the lands? whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, he becomes a priest of what is not God.
Psalms 135:15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:
Isaiah 44:9They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Jeremiah 10:3For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;
John 1:10He was in the world, and the world had [its] being through him, and the world knew him not.
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 →