8 But formerly, not knowing God, you were enslaved to things that were not gods by nature. 9 And now, knowing God—and, what is more, being known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and impoverished elementary principles, to which you desire to submit yourselves to live as slavesa all over again? 10 You are observing days and months and seasons and years!b 11 I am afraid where you’re concerned, lest somehow I have laboredc over you for nothing. In Gal 3:23–29 and 4:1–7, Paul has established