8. But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them, who, by nature, are not gods.
9. But 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?
10. You observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11. I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.
12. Be ye as I, because I also am as you: brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured me at all.
13. And you know, how through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh,
14. You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.