Galatians 4:8

But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.

Montgomery 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

7So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God’s grace.

9Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

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Cross References

John 1:10He was in the world, and through him the world came into being, yet 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 →

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