8. Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.
9. But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
10. You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.
11. I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.
12. I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!
13. But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,
14. and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!