12. Brothers, I beg you to become as I am, because I am as you are. You did not wrong me at all.
13. But you know that through weakness of the flesh I brought the Good News to you before.
14. And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as a messenger of Elohim, as Messiah יהושע.
15. What then was your blessedness? For I bear you witness, that if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.
16. So then, have I become your enemy, speaking truth to you?
17. They are ardent towards you, for no good, but they wish to shut you out, that you might be ardent towards them.
18. And it is good always to be ardent in what is good, and not only when I am present with you.
19. My little children, for whom I am again in birth pains until Messiah is formed in you,
20. even now I wish to be present with you now and to change my voice, for I have doubts about you.
21. Say to me, you who wish to be under Torah, do you not hear the Torah?