King James Version (KJV)

Galatians 4:3

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

Verse in context — Galatians 4

Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

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

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Freedom in Christ, apart from the law, through faith.