Galatians 4:12
My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;
Bible in Basic English
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 in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.
13But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;
Cross References
Genesis 34:15But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;
Acts 21:21And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.
2 Corinthians 2:5But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).
Galatians 2:14But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?
Galatians 6:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. So be it.
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 →