³ Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?^(A)

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

³ So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental principles^[a] of the world.^(A)

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 principles?^[a] How can you want to be enslaved to them again?^(A)