Galatians 4:7-9
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
7 Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir [a]by the aid of God, through Christ.
8 But at that previous time, when you had not come to be acquainted with and understand and know the true God, you [Gentiles] were in bondage to gods who by their very nature could not be gods at all [gods that really did not exist].
9 Now, however, that you have come to be acquainted with and understand and know [the true] God, or rather to be understood and known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly and worthless elementary things [[b]of all religions before Christ came], whose slaves you once more want to become?
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- Galatians 4:7 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
- Galatians 4:9 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
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