15. What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
16. So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17. They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
18. But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.