Galatians 4:16-23

16Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

17They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.

18It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you,

19my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

20I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

21Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?

22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.

23But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.