So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

我们为孩童的时候，受管于世俗小学之下，也是如此。

我们也是一样，在未成年的时候，被世上粗浅的学说所奴役，也是如此。

我们也是一样，在未成年的时候，被世上粗浅的学说所奴役，也是如此。

我们也一样，当我们还是孩童的时候，我们受世界基本规条的辖制。

我们也是这样，作孩童的时候，被世俗的言论所奴役；

我们也是这样：我们还是小孩子的时候，在世界的原则下受奴役。

我們為孩童的時候，受管於世俗小學之下，也是如此。

我們也是一樣，在未成年的時候，被世上粗淺的學說所奴役，也是如此。

我們也是一樣，在未成年的時候，被世上粗淺的學說所奴役，也是如此。

我們也一樣，當我們還是孩童的時候，我們受世界基本規條的轄制。

我們也是這樣，作孩童的時候，被世俗的言論所奴役；

我們也是這樣：我們做孩童時，就是在世俗所信之「宇宙星質之靈」底下做奴僕。

我們也是這樣：我們還是小孩子的時候，在世界的原則下受奴役。

我儕童蒙時、亦役於斯世之小學、

我儕當未成人、亦為此世小學束縛、

我儕亦然、當未成人時、被此世賤質賤質或作虛文束縛、

吾人亦然、方吾人之尚屬幼稚、亦受制於世俗之蒙學；

So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.

It is the same with us. When we were children, we were slaves to the basic spiritual powers of the world.

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

And that’s the way it was with us before Christ came. We were like children; we were slaves to the basic spiritual principles of this world.

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements of the world.

So we too, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elementary principles of the world.

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

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

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 worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“ Abba, Father.”

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him,“ If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.