Even so we, when we were children, (A)were in bondage under the elements of the world.

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So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery(A) under the elemental spiritual forces[a] of the world.(B)

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  1. Galatians 4:3 Or under the basic principles

But now (A)after you have known God, or rather are known by God, (B)how is it that you turn again to (C)the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

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But now that you know God—or rather are known by God(A)—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces[a]? Do you wish to be enslaved(B) by them all over again?(C)

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  1. Galatians 4:9 Or principles

10 (A)You observe days and months and seasons and years.

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10 You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!(A)

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20 [a]Therefore, if you (A)died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, (B)why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—

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  1. Colossians 2:20 NU, M omit Therefore

20 Since you died with Christ(A) to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,(B) why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:(C)

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