⁸ However at that time, ^(A)when you did not know God, you were ^(B)slaves to ^(C)those which by nature are not gods. ⁹ But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be ^(D)known by God, ^(E)how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless ^[a](F)elementary principles, to which you want to be enslaved all over again? ¹⁰ You ^(G)meticulously observe days and months and seasons and years. ¹¹ I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored ^[b]over you in vain.