ACV(i)
8 But of course not knowing God then, ye were in bondage to those in nature who are not gods,
9 but now knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it ye turn again to the weak and destitute elements to which ye desire again to be in bondage anew?
10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.
12 I beseech you, brothers, become like me, because I also am like ye. Ye wronged me in nothing.
13 But ye know that through a weakness of the flesh I preached the good news to you the first time.
14 And ye did not disdain, nor did ye reject my trial in my flesh, but ye received me as an agent of God, as Christ Jesus.
15 Where then is your satisfaction? For I testify to you, that if possible, having plucked your eyes out, ye would have given them to me.
16 So then have I become your enemy telling you the truth?
17 They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.
18 But to be zealous of is always good in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.
20 But I was wishing to be present with you now and to change my tone, because I am perplexed at you.