Paul's Personal Appeal and Affection

Galatians 4:12-20

Become as I am --because I also am as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

and my trial that is in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me--as Christ Jesus;

what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

they are zealous for you-- yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

and it is good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.