15. what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;
16. so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?
17. they are zealous for you--[yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;
18. and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;