⁹ But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be ^(A)known by God, ^(B)how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless ^[a](C)elementary principles, to which you want to be enslaved all over again? ¹⁰ You ^(D)meticulously observe days and months and seasons and years.

¹⁶ Therefore, no one is to ^[a](A)act as your judge in regard to ^(B)food and ^(C)drink, or in respect to a ^(D)festival or a ^(E)new moon, or a ^(F)Sabbath ^[b]day—

¹⁷ things which are only a ^(A)shadow of what is to come; but the ^[a]substance ^[b]belongs to Christ.