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,