Verse Comparison: Galatians 4:3
American Standard Version
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:
Amplified® Bible
So we [Jewish Christians] also, when we were minors, were kept like slaves under [the rules of the Hebrew ritual and subject to] the elementary teachings of a system of external observations {and} regulations.
Darby English Version
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;
International Standard Version
It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world.
King James Version
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Young's Literal Translation
so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,