17. They are not imitating you well. And they are willing to exclude you, so that you might imitate them.
18. But be imitators of what is good, always in a good way, and not only when I am present with you.
19. My little sons, I am giving birth to you again, until Christ is formed in you.
20. And I would willingly be present with you, even now. But I would alter my voice: for I am ashamed of you.
21. Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?
22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one by a servant woman, and one by a free woman.
23. And he who was of the servant was born according to the flesh. But he who was of the free woman was born by the promise.