Galatians 4:13-20 - Paul's Personal Appeal
13 but ye know that through weakness of the flesh I proclaimed the Gospel to you formerly; 14 and my trial in my flesh ye despised not, nor spurned; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
15 Where, then, is your benedictions for me? For I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your eyes, ye would have given them to me! 16 So, then, have I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? 17 They are zealously seeking you, not nobly; they are wishing to shut you out, that ye may zealously seek them. 18 But it is good to be zealously sought in a good thing at all times, and not only when I am present with you, 19 my little children, for whom I am in travail again, until Christ be formed in you! 20 And I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice; because I am perplexed about you.