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Galatians 4:8

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Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

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

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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…?

Cross references

  1. aRo 1:28; 1Co 1:21; 15:34; 1Th 4:5; 2Th 1:8
  2. b ver 3
  3. c2Ch 13:9; Isa 37:19; Jer 2:11; 5:7; 16:20; 1Co 8:4,5

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew Living Translation

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

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.

KJV 1900King James Version

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