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Heirs of Promise Are Not to Return to Law

4:8Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.13

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Galatians 4:8–9: Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again…?

Footnotes

  1. 13 Grk “those that by nature …” with the word “beings” implied. φύσις 2 sees this as referring to pagan worship: “Polytheists worship … beings that are by nature no gods at all Gal 4:8.”

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But at that time when you did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

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

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