Galatians 4:8

For then, when ye knew not God, ye served them who in their nature are not gods.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

7Wherefore, ye are no longer servants, but sons; and if sons, then heirs of God; through Jesus the Messiah.

9But now, since ye have known God, or rather, have been known by God, ye turn yourselves again to the weak and beggarly elements, and wish again to be under them!

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Cross References

John 1:10He was in the world; and the world was by his hand; and 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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