11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. |
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. |
13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. |
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. |
15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. |
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? |
17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. |
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. |
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, |
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. |
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? |
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. |
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. |
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. |
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. |
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. |
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. |
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. |
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. |
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. |
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. |
