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Galatians 4:3
Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform · Berean Standard Bible
Οὕτως καὶ ἡμεῖς, ὅτε ἦμεν νήπιοι, ὑπὸ τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου ἦμεν δεδουλωμένοι·
So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles (note: Or elemental forces; similarly in verse 9) of the world.