Galatians 4:8-9

Paul's Concern for the Galatians

8 Formerly, when you l did not know God, you m were enslaved to those that by nature n are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather o to be known by God, p how can you turn back again to q the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

  1. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 1:21
    For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
    1 Thessalonians 4:5
    Not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.
    2 Thessalonians 1:8
    In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
    1 John 4:8
    Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
  2. Cross References
    Ephesians 2:11 - 12
    Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands -
    1 Thessalonians 1:9
    For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
  3. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 13:9
    Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord...
    Isaiah 37:19
    And have cast their gods into the fire. For the...
    Jeremiah 2:11
    Has a nation changed its gods, even though they...
    Jeremiah 5:7
    How can I pardon you? Your children have forsak...
    Jeremiah 16:20
    Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!
    1 Corinthians 8:4
    Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to ...
  4. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 8:3
    But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
  5. Cross References
    Galatians 3:3
    Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
  6. Cross References
    Romans 8:3
    For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.
    Hebrews 7:18
    For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
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