Galatians 4:3 Cross References - Thomson

³ So we also when minors were in bondage, under the elements of the world;

²⁸ Come to me all ye who labour and are heavily burdened and I will give you rest.

³¹ therefore to the Jews who believed in him Jesus said, If you continue steadily in this doctrine of mine, you are my disciples indeed;

¹⁰ Now therefore why do ye try God, to put upon the neck of the disciples, a yoke which neither our fathers nor we are able to bear?

¹⁵ For you have not received a spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received a spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

⁴ nor did I, [on account of the false brethren who had slily introduced themselves, and crept in, to spy out that liberty of ours which we have by Christ Jesus, that they might enslave us]

¹⁹ To what purpose then was the law? [b] On the account of transgressions it was superadded until the seed should come, to whom the promise was made; and it was introduced through angels by the hand of a mediator;

²³ Now before this belief came, we were under the custody of law, shut up together for the future belief to be revealed. ²⁴ So that the law was our tutor to guide us to Christ, that we might be justified for belief. ²⁵ But this belief being come, we are no longer under a tutor;

⁹ but now when you know God, or rather when God hath owned you, how turn ye again to those weak and beggarly elements to which you degradingly desire again to be in bondage as before.

²⁵ [for Hagar meaneth mount Sina in Arabia] and answereth to the present Jerusalem, who with her children is in a state of bondage:

³¹ Now we, brethren, are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free;

⁸ Be on your guard, that none may make a prey of you by their philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

²⁰ If you, then, have died with the Christ from the elements of the world, why are you, as if you were living in the world, troubled with these dogmas,

¹⁶ who is made not according to the law of a commandment concerning flesh, but according to the power of an endless life.