14. and though my physical condition was a trial to you, you did not hate or reject me. No, you welcomed me as a messenger of God—or even as Messiah Yeshua.
15. So where is your sense of joy? For I testify that you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me, if possible.
16. So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?!
17. Others zealously court you—not in a good way, but they wish to shut you out so that you will court them.
18. To be courted is good, but let it always be in a good way—and not just when I am there with you.
19. My dear children! Again I suffer labor pains until Messiah is formed in you.
20. I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, for I don’t know what to make of you.
21. Tell me, you who want to be under Torah, don’t you understand the Torah?
22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.