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

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

“ Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“ Abba! Father!”

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him,“ If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.