Galatians 4:10

Galatians 4:10 Meaning and Explanation

Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

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Paul notes with concern that they are observing special days, months, seasons, and years.

What Does Galatians 4:10 Mean?

Paul points to a troubling sign: they had begun scrupulously marking out sacred days, months, seasons, and years, as though their standing with God depended on such observance. The calendar had become a new master.

He names this not to condemn reverence but to expose where it had gone. They were sliding back into a system of regulated religion that the gospel had freed them from. The observance had become a substitute for the freedom of trusting Christ, and that alarmed him.

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What does Galatians 4:10 mean?

Paul notes with concern that they are observing special days, months, seasons, and years.

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