Galatians 4:8-12 - Do Not Be Enslaved Again

⁸ But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being. ⁹ Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again? ¹⁰ You are scrupulous, are you, in observing "days" and "months" and "seasons" and "years"? ¹¹ I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.

¹² Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;