"Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:"
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Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Now 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?
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Wherefore 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.
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Beware 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.
And 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:
But 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?
So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world.
so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,