Galatians 4:12-20 - What Happened To Your Positive Attitude?

¹² Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong; ¹³ on the contrary, you know that although it was illness which brought about my preaching the gospel to you at my first visit, ¹⁴ and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

¹⁵ Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.) ¹⁶ Am I then become your enemy, because I am telling you the truth? ¹⁷ These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor. ¹⁸ It is always an honorable thing to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, always, and not only when I am with you. ¹⁹ O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within you! ²⁰ How I wish I could be with you now, that I might change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.