^{9 Ref} But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

^{10 Ref} You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.

^{11 Ref} I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

^{12 Ref} My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;

^{13 Ref} But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

^{14 Ref} And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

^{15 Ref} Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.