Galatians 4:16-23

16So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

17These men [the Judaizers] eagerly seek you [to entrap you with honeyed words and attention, to win you over to their philosophy], not honorably [for their purpose is not honorable or worthy of consideration]. They want to isolate you [from us who oppose them] so that you will seek them.

18Now it is always pleasant to be eagerly sought after [provided that it is] for a good purpose, and not just when I am with you [seeking you myself—but beware of the others doing it].

19My little children, for whom I am again in [the pains of] labor until Christ is [completely and permanently] formed within you—

20how I wish that I were with you now and could change my tone, because I am perplexed in regard to you.

21Tell me, you who are bent on being under the Law, do you not listen to [what] the Law [really says]?

22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman [Hagar] and one by the free woman [Sarah].

23But the child of the slave woman was born according to the flesh and had an ordinary birth, while the son of the free woman was born in fulfillment of the promise.