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 anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
• Gal 3:3Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• 1 Jn 5:20We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• 2 Pet 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
• 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
• Heb 7:18For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
• John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
• Heb 10:38–39But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
• Eph 1:17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
• 1 Cor 13:12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
• John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
• Exod 33:17Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
• 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Prov 2:5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
• Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Jer 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
• Hab 2:14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
• 1 Kgs 8:43hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
• Ps 9:10Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
• Matt 11:27All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
• John 10:14I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
• 1 Jn 2:3–4This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
• Col 2:20–23If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
• Ps 1:6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
• 1 Cor 15:34Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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