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I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are]. Ye did me no wrong:
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but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:
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and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.
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Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
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So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?
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They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
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But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.
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My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--
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but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.