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11 When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.

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(A)In the same way we also, when we were not of age, were enslaved to the elemental powers of the world.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:3 The elemental powers of the world: while the term can refer to the “elements” like earth, air, fire, and water or to elementary forms of religion, the sense here is more likely that of celestial beings that were thought in pagan circles to control the world; cf. Gal 4:8; Col 2:8, 20.

but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and destitute elemental powers? Do you want to be slaves to them all over again?(A)

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