Galatians 4:12
I beseech you, brothers, become like me, because I also am like ye. Ye wronged me in nothing.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
In Context
11I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.
13But ye know that through a weakness of the flesh I preached the good-news to you the first time.
Cross References
Genesis 34:15Only on this condition will we consent to you: If ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised.
Acts 21:21And they were informed about thee, that thou teach all the Jews throughout the nations desertion from Moses, telling them not to circumcise the children nor to walk by the customs.
2 Corinthians 2:5But if any man has caused sadness, he has not caused me sadness, but in part (that I may not bear down) you all.
Galatians 2:14But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly toward the truth of the good-news, I said to Peter before all, If thou being a Jew, live as a Gentile and not as a Jew, why do thou compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?
Galatians 6:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with your spirit, brothers. Truly.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:9-12
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. 9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. In these verses the apostle puts them in mind of what they were before their conversion to the… Read the whole commentary →