Galatians 4:3
So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
In Context
2but he is under the control of guardians and trustees until the time his father has appointed.
4But, when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law,
Cross References
Matthew 11:28"Come to me, all you toiling and burdened ones, and *I* will give you rest.
Acts 15:10Now, therefore, why try an experiment upon God, by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?
Galatians 2:4Yet there was danger of this through the false brethren secretly introduced into the Church, who had stolen in to spy out the freedom which is ours in Christ Jesus, in order to rob us of it.
Galatians 3:23Before this faith came, we Jews were perpetual prisoners under the Law, living under restraints and limitations in preparation for the faith which was soon to be revealed.
Galatians 4:25This is Hagar; for the name Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, which is in bondage together with her children.
Colossians 2:8Take care lest there be some one who leads you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude notions instead of following 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 →