8 But at that time, when you did not know God, you served those who by nature are not gods at all.
9 But now you have come to know God—or rather you have come to be known by God. So how can you turn back again to those weak and worthless principles? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
10 You observe days and months and seasons and years.
11 I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain!
12 I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong—
13 you know it was because of a physical ailment that I proclaimed the Good News to you the first time;
14 and though my physical condition was a trial to you, you did not hate or reject me. No, you welcomed me as a messenger of God—or even as Messiah Yeshua.