15 Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!
16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.
18 However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!
20 I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.
21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?