Galatians 4:8

Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to ‘gods’ which were no gods.

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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

7You, therefore, are no longer a slave, but a son; and, if a son, then an heir also, by God’s appointment.

9But now that you have found God – or, rather, have been found by him – how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?

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Cross References

Joshua 24:2and Joshua said to all the people, “This is the message of the Lord the God of Israel: In days of old your ancestors lived east of the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, worshipping other gods.

Psalms 135:15The idols of heathen are silver made by human hands.

John 1:10He was in the world; and through him the world came into being – yet the world did not know him.

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 →

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