14. and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15. Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
16. So then am I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17. They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
18. But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.
19. My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,
20. yea, I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I am perplexed about you.
21. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?