Galatians 4:12-20

21st Century King James Version

¹² Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am, for I am as ye are. Ye have not injured me at all.

¹³ Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the Gospel unto you at the first.

¹⁴ And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected, but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of? For I bear you record that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me.

¹⁶ Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

¹⁷ They zealously seek after you, but for no good; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might seek after them.

¹⁸ But it is good to be zealously sought after, always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁹ My little children, over whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

²⁰ I desire to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I stand in doubt of you.