9But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
10You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.
11I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.
12My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;
13But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;
14And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.