4:8 Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all. ¹  4:9 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 ²  basic forces? ³  Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again? ⁴  4:10 You are observing religious ⁵  days and months and seasons and years. 4:11 I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.