11. I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.
12. Be as I am, for I also am as ye, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.
13. But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;
14. and my temptation, which was in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
15. What then was your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given them to me.
16. So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?
17. They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them.
18. But it is right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you--
19. my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:
20. and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.
21. Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?
22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman.
23. But he that was of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he that was of the free woman through the promise.
24. Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.
25. For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which is now, for she is in bondage with her children;
26. but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.
27. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the children of the desolate are more numerous than those of her that has a husband.
28. But ye, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.