16. Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17. Those other people show a deep interest in you, but their intentions are not good. All they want is to separate you from me, so that you will have the same interest in them as they have in you.
18. Now, it is good to have such a deep interest if the purpose is good — this is true always, and not merely when I am with you.
19. My dear children! Once again, just like a mother in childbirth, I feel the same kind of pain for you until Christ's nature is formed in you.
20. How I wish I were with you now, so that I could take a different attitude towards you. I am so worried about you!
21. Let me ask those of you who want to be subject to the Law: do you not hear what the Law says?
22. It says that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman, the other by a free woman.