Galatians 4:3
King James Version
28 Jul 2026
“Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:”
μέ
No, not, never. Mé. The softest Greek negative, used to deny what is possible or expected. When God says no, he means it.
ὅτε
when
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ὅτε
When, at the time when, after. When the fullness of time had come God sent His Son. God's timing is always right. He never acts too early or too late.
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εἰμί
we ourselves were
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εἰμί
To be, to exist. Eimi. When God names himself I AM, he uses this word. Existence itself belongs to him. Ground your identity in the one who simply is.
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νήπιος
children,
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νήπιος
Infant, immature, simple-minded. Nḗpios. Paul urges believers to stop being children in their thinking and grow into maturity. Milk has its season, but solid food is the goal. Grow up.
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στοιχεῖον
basic principles
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στοιχεῖον
something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively)
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κόσμος
world
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κόσμος
The world, the ordered universe. God so loved the kosmos. He loves what He made and He is working to redeem every part of it.
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δουλόω
held in bondage;
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δουλόω
Enslave, bring into bondage. Douloō. Paul warned that he would not be mastered by anything, for he belonged to Christ alone. What you repeatedly yield to, you serve.
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