Galatians 4:12-20

¹²I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, for I also am become as ye are. Ye did me no wrong: ¹³but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time: ¹⁴and my trial that was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵What then was the gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth? ¹⁷They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut us out, that ye may seek them. ¹⁸But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you. ¹⁹My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you— ²⁰but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.