Galatians 4:12-20

American Standard Version

¹² I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, for I also am become as ye are. Ye did me no wrong: ¹³ but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I ^[a]preached the gospel unto you the ^[b]first time: ¹⁴ and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor ^[c]rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Where then is that gratulation ^[d]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, ^[e]by telling 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 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.