12. Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
13. Ye know that in infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first.
14. And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15. What then was the blessedness ye spoke of; for I bear you testimony, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16. Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
17. They zealously affect you, but not well; for, they would exclude you, that ye may affect them.
18. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.