Galatians 4:8

Notwithstondinge when ye knewe not God ye dyd service vnto them which by nature were no goddes.

Tyndale New Testament

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

7Wherfore now thou art not a servaunt but a sonne. Yf thou be the sonne thou arte also the heyre of God thorow Christ.

9But now seinge ye knowe god (yee rather are knowe of God) how is it that ye tourne agayne vnto the weake and bedgarly cerimonies whervnto agayne ye desyre afresshe to be in bondage?

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Cross References

John 1:10He was in the worlde and the worlde was made by him: and yet the worlde knewe 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 →

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