8. But then, certainly, while ignorant of God, you served those who, by nature, are not gods.
9. But now, since you have known God, or rather, since you have been known by God: how can you turn away again, to weak and destitute influences, which you desire to serve anew?
10. You serve the days, and months, and times, and years.
11. I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you.
12. Brothers, I beg you. Be as I am. For I, too, am like you. You have not injured me at all.
13. But you know that, in the weakness of the flesh, I have preached the Gospel to you for a long time, and that your trials are in my flesh.
14. You did not despise or reject me. But instead, you accepted me like an Angel of God, even like Christ Jesus.
15. Therefore, where is your happiness? For I offer to you testimony that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would have given them to me.
16. So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17. They are not imitating you well. And they are willing to exclude you, so that you might imitate them.
18. But be imitators of what is good, always in a good way, and not only when I am present with you.