Galatians 4:11-15

I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

I beg of you, brothers and sisters, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong;

but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;

and you did not despise that which was a trial to you in my bodily condition, nor express contempt, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

Where then is that sense of blessing you had? For I testify about you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.