Galatians 4:8
But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,
Young's Literal Translation
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 that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
Cross References
Joshua 24:2And Joshua saith unto all the people, 'Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Beyond the River have your fathers dwelt of old — Terah father of Abraham and father of Nachor — and they serve other gods;
2 Chronicles 13:9'Have ye not cast out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make to you priests like the peoples of the lands? every one who hath come to fill his hand with a bullock, a son of the herd, and seven rams, even he hath been a priest to No-gods!
Psalms 135:15The idols of the nations [are] silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.
Isaiah 44:9Framers of a graven image [are] all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they [are], They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.
Jeremiah 10:3For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,
John 1:10in the world he was, and the world through him was made, 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 →