4 Yet because of false brothers ^rsecretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our ^sfreedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might ^tbring us into ^uslavery—

3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were ^xenslaved to the ^yelementary principles¹ of the world.

7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and ^lif a son, then an ^mheir through God.

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

8 ⁿFormerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are ^onot gods. 9 ^pBut now that you have come to ^qknow God, or rather to be ^rknown by God, how can you turn back again to the ^sweak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but ^sof the free woman.