Galatians 4:11-20

11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

12Brethren, I beseech you, be as Iam ; for I am as ye are : ye have not injured me at all. 13Ye know that in infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first. 14And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15What then was the blessedness ye spoke of? for I bear you witness, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.1 16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

17They zealously seek you, butnot for good; for, they would exclude you, that ye may seek them.2 18But it is good to be zealously sought always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 20I desire to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I stand in doubt of you.3