3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by [1] the flesh?

3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles [2] of the world.

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 elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?