Galatians 4:9-15 but now when you know God, or rather when God hath owned you, how turn ye again to those weak and beggarly elements to which you degradingly desire again to be in bondage as before.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁹ but now when you know God, or rather when God hath owned you, how turn ye again to those weak and beggarly elements to which you degradingly desire again to be in bondage as before. ¹⁰ You observe days and months and seasons and years; ¹¹ I am afraid for you lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. ¹² Brethren be, I beseech you, as I, for I am as you were. You have not injured me at all; ¹³ and you know that when in a weakness of the flesh I proclaimed to you formerly the glad tidings; ¹⁴ with respect to that trial of mine, which I had in my flesh, you did not despise, nor with scorn reject, but received me as a messenger of God"as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ What was then your felicitation! For I bear you witness, that if it had been possible you would have pulled out your very eyes and given them to me.