Galatians 4:16-23

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

17They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.

18However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

19My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

20I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.

21Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

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

23But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.