3. So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:
4. but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5. that he might redeem them which were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6. And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7. So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.
8. Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them which by nature are no gods:
9. but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known of God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?
10. Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
11. I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labour upon you in vain.
12. I beseech you, brethren, be as I am, for I am as ye are. Ye did me no wrong:
13. but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:
14. and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.