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12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
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I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. You did me no wrong.
13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
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As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you,
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.
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and even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
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.
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Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
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Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
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Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may have zeal for them.
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
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It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
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My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
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how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!
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