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Galatians 4:8

Galatians chapter 4 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

Context

v.7So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

v.8This passage

v.9but 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?

Cross references

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

  • Acts 17:29

    Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.

  • Psalms 135:15

    The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.

  • Jeremiah 10:3

    For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

  • Ephesians 2:11

    Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

  • 1 Corinthians 10:19

    What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

  • Joshua 24:15

    And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.