Galatians 4:8
However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
New Heart English Bible
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 you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God.
Cross References
Joshua 24:2Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
2 Chronicles 13:9Haven't you driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves after the ways of the peoples of other lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.
Psalms 135:15The idols of the nations are silver and gold,the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 44:9Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain.The things that they delight in will not profit.Their own witnesses do not see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
Jeremiah 10:3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
John 1:10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not recognize 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 →