Galatians 4:8-11 Part 1 of 3

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. But now that you know God--or rather are known by God--how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you. 

Formerly, when you did not know God 
Romans 1:28  Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
1 Corinthians 1:21  For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 15:33-34  Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character." [from the Greek poet Menander] Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God--I say this to your shame.
2 Thessalonians 1:8  He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

You were slaves 
Galatians 4:3  So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world. 

to those who by nature are not gods 
2 Chronicles 13:9  "But didn't you drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make priests of your own as the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a  young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods." 
Isaiah 37:19  "They [the Assyrian kings] have thrown their [the conquered peoples] gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands."
Jeremiah 2:11  "Has any nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols."
Jeremiah 5:7  "Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes."
Jeremiah 16:20  "Do people make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!"

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