ABU(i)
8 But at that time indeed, when ye knew not God, ye served those which are not in their nature gods.
9 But now, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how is it that ye turn back again to the weak and poor elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again anew?
10 Do ye carefully observe days, and months, and seasons, and years?
11 I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.
12 Become as I am, for I also became as ye are, brethren, I beseech you. Ye injured me in nothing.
13 Nay, ye know that by reason of weakness of the flesh I preached the glad tidings to you the former time;
14 and my trial, which was in my flesh, ye despised not nor spurned, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
15 Where is then the happiness of which ye spoke? For I bear you witness, that if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and given them to me.
16 So then, have I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously seek you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye may zealously seek them.
18 But it is good to be zealously sought in a good cause always, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail again in birth, until Christ be formed in you!
20 And I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I am perplexed on account of you.