12. I ask you, brothers, become like me, because I also have become like you. You have done me no wrong!
13. But you know that because of an illness of the flesh I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time.
14. And you did not despise or disdain what was a trial for you in my flesh, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus.
15. So where is your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me!
16. So then, have I become your enemy by being truthful to you?
17. They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they want to exclude you, in order that you may seek them zealously.
18. But it is good to be sought zealously in good at all times, and not only when I am present with you.
19. My children, for whom I am having birth pains again, until Christ is formed in you!
20. But I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone because I am perplexed about you.
21. Tell me, you who are wanting to be under the law, do you not understand the law?
22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the female slave and one by the free woman.
23. But the one by the female slave was born according to human descent, and the one by the free woman through the promise,
24. which things are spoken allegorically, for these women are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery, who is Hagar.
25. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is a slave with her children.