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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 4, Verse 12

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Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all.
King James Version
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
American Standard Version
but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:
New English Translation
But what does the scripture say?“Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman.
World English Bible
I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
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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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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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Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
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They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
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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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My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
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I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
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Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
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For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
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But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise.