Galatians 4:9

Now that they know God, or rather are known by God, Paul asks why they would return to weak and worthless bondage. Turning to law-keeping is a tragic step backward into slavery.

Cross-references · 27

• 1 Cor 8:3But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
• Gal 3:3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
• Rom 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• 1 Jn 5:20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• 1 Chr 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
• 2 Pet 2:20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
• 2 Tim 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
• Heb 7:18For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
• John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
• Heb 10:38–39Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• Eph 1:17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
• 1 Cor 13:12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
• John 17:3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
• Exod 33:17And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
• 2 Cor 4:6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Prov 2:5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
• Rom 8:29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
• Jer 31:34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
• Hab 2:14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
• 1 Kgs 8:43Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
• Ps 9:10And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
• Matt 11:27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
• John 10:14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
• 1 Jn 2:3–4And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
• Col 2:20–23Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
• Ps 1:6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
• 1 Cor 15:34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

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