Galatians 4:12
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; because I was as you are. You have injured me in nothing.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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
11fear for you, lest I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.
13You know that through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first:
Cross References
Acts 21:21And they have heard it reported of you, that you teach all the Jews that are among the Gentiles to apostatize from Moses; commanding them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk according to the customs.
2 Corinthians 2:5But if any one has caused grief, he has grieved, not me only, but, in some measure―not to speak harshly―all of you.
Galatians 2:14But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter, before them all: If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not after the manner of the Jews, why do you compel the Gen tiles to observe Jewish customs?
Galatians 6:18Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
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 →