Paul's Personal Appeal and Affection

Galatians 4:12-20

I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, for I also am become as ye are. Ye did me no wrong:

but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:

and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?

They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.

But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you—

but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.