Galatians 4:10 10You observe days and months and seasons and years. Truth to Learn Our relationship with God is based on faith, not on the observance of special days and events. Behind the Words The word translated observe is “paratēreisthe,” which is made up of “para” meaning close or...

  Galatians 4:9 9But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? Truth to Learn Once you are truly saved through faith in Christ,...

    Galatians 4:8 8But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. Truth to Learn Before we were saved we may have thought that we were serving God, but we weren’t. We were merely performing ritualistic practices. Behind the Words...

    Galatians 4:7 7Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Truth to Learn Because we have been adopted as a child of God we now have all the rights of inheritance, permanently. Review Before the...