Galatians 4:9

but if anyone loves God, he has been known by Him.

For you bear it if anyone enslaves you, anyone devours you, anyone takes advantage of you, anyone exalts himself, anyone hits you in the face.

So also we, while we were children, were enslaved under the elemental things of the world.

If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees:

The one who believes in the Son of God has this witness in himself. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has borne witness about His Son.