⁹But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements which you desire to serve again?

¹⁰You observe days and months and times, and years.

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.

¹²Be ye as I, because I also am as you brethren, I beseech you. You have not injured me at all.

¹³And you know how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh

¹⁴You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would have given them to me.

¹⁶Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

¹⁷They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them.

¹⁸But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁹My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.

²⁰And I would willingly be present with you now and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you.

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Galatians 4:8–9: Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again…?

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