15. Where now is that blessedness of yours? Indeed, I can testify to you that, if it had been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16. So now have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17. They show interest in you, but not in a good way; they want to isolate you, so that you may show interest in them.
18. Now it is good to be shown interest for good reason at all times, and not only when I am with you.
19. My children, for whom I am again in labor until Christ be formed in you!
20. I would like to be with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed because of you.
21. Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the freeborn woman.
23. The son of the slave woman was born naturally, the son of the freeborn through a promise.
24. Now this is an allegory. These women represent two covenants. One was from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.