11. I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you.
12. Brothers, I beg you. Be as I am. For I, too, am like you. You have not injured me at all.
13. But you know that, in the weakness of the flesh, I have preached the Gospel to you for a long time, and that your trials are in my flesh.
14. You did not despise or reject me. But instead, you accepted me like an Angel of God, even like Christ Jesus.
15. Therefore, where is your happiness? For I offer to you testimony that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would have given them to me.
16. So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17. They are not imitating you well. And they are willing to exclude you, so that you might imitate them.
18. But be imitators of what is good, always in a good way, and not only when I am present with you.
19. My little sons, I am giving birth to you again, until Christ is formed in you.
20. And I would willingly be present with you, even now. But I would alter my voice: for I am ashamed of you.
21. Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?