3. So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.
4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:
5. That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6. And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.
7. Therefore now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also through God.
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.
15. Where 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.
16. Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17. They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them.
18. But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.