8. But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,
9. and now, having known God--and rather being known by God--how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?
10. days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!
11. I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.
12. Become as I [am] --because I also [am] as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,
13. and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,
14. 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;
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;
19. my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,
20. and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.
21. Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?
22. for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,
23. but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise;