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Galatians 4:3

Galatians chapter 4 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

Context

v.2but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.

v.3This passage

v.4but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Galatians 3:23

    But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

  • Colossians 2:8

    Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

  • Hebrews 7:16

    who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

  • Galatians 4:9

    but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

  • Galatians 3:19

    What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

  • Acts 15:10

    Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?