11. I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.
12. I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!
13. But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,
14. and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!
15. Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!
16. So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17. They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.
18. However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.
19. My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!
20. I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.
21. Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?
22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.