Galatians 4:9-20

9But now, after ye have known God, or rather are known by God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage?12 10Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 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.3 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.4 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.5