³ Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized^(A) into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

⁵ For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.^(A)

³ So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery^(A) under the elemental spiritual forces^[a] of the world.^(B)

⁹ But now that you know God—or rather are known by God^(A)—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces^[a]? Do you wish to be enslaved^(B) by them all over again?^(C)