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Galatians 4:2–3
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Galatians 4:2
2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
2But is vnder tutors and gouernours vntill the time appointed of the father.
Galatians 4:3
3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
3Euen so we, when wee were children, were in bondage vnder the ‖Elements of the world:
- Or, rudiments.
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DEFINED WORDS
Galatians 4:2
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons who govern, rule, direct, or hold chief civil authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Fixed; set; established; decreed; ordained; constituted; allotted; Furnished; equipped with things necessary.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Galatians 4:3
Just as, or in the same manner stated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
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Open the full verse study8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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Open the full verse study9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
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Open the full verse study4And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
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Open the full verse study10Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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Open the full verse study15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
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Open the full verse study31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
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Open the full verse study19Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
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Open the full verse study23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
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Open the full verse study25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
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Open the full verse study16Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
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Open the full verse study28¶ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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