Thomson(i)
8 At the time indeed [a] An objection. [b] The answer. when you knew not God, you as slaves served things which are in reality.no gods;
9 but now when you know God, or rather when God hath owned you, how turn ye again to those weak and beggarly elements to which you degradingly desire again to be in bondage as before.
10 You observe days and months and seasons and years;
11 I am afraid for you lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12 Brethren be, I beseech you, as I, for I am as you were. You have not injured me at all;
13 and you know that when in a weakness of the flesh I proclaimed to you formerly the glad tidings;
14 with respect to that trial of mine, which I had in my flesh, you did not despise, nor with scorn reject, but received me as a messenger of God"as Christ Jesus.
15 What was then your felicitation! For I bear you witness, that if it had been possible you would have pulled out your very eyes and given them to me.
16 Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you truth?
17 They affect a zeal for you; not in an honourable way; but they wish to exclude us, that you may be zealous for them.
18 Now it is honourable to be zealously affected towards a good man at all times, and not barely when I am present with you.
19 My dear children, for whom I again suffer pangs until Christ be formed in you
20 but I wish I could this moment be with you and change the tone of my voice, for I am in doubt about you