Galatians 4:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.^[a]

Paul Reproves the Galatians

⁸ Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods. ⁹ Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits?^[b] How can you want to be enslaved to them again?