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;