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Galatians 4:15

How great, then, was your blessedness! For I testify for you, that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes, and have given them to me.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14and my trial, which was in my flesh, you did not despise or loathe; but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

16Have I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

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Cross References

Romans 4:6Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God counts righteousness without works, saying:

Romans 9:3for I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;

Romans 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in the hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 3:14in order that the blessing of Abraham may come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.

Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness,

Colossians 4:13For I testify for him, that he has a great zeal for you and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.

Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:13-17

Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. 14 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. 15 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… Read the whole commentary →

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