14. and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
15. What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.
16. Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17. They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.
18. It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you,
19. my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
20. I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
21. Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.
23. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.
24. Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.