Galatians 4:3
So we also, when we were infants, were in bondage under the first elementary principles of the world:
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
In Context
2but is under tutors and trustees until the time fixed by his father.
4but when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son born of a woman, born under the law,
Cross References
Matthew 11:28Come to me, all who labour hard, and sustain heavy burdens, and I will give you relief.
Acts 15:10Why then now tempt ye God, by imposing a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Galatians 2:4but this I did because of false brethren artfully introduced, who came to pry into our liberty which we hold in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Galatians 3:23But before the faith came, we were in ward under the law, shut up together for the faith that should be revealed.
Galatians 4:25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds with Jerusalem that now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Colossians 2:8Beware that no man make a prey of you by means of philosophy and vain delusion, after the tradition of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ:
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 →