Galatians 4:13

But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

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In The King James Version

Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

In Context

12My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;

14And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:40And if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean.

1 Corinthians 2:3And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.

2 Corinthians 11:6But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

2 Corinthians 12:7And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.

Galatians 1:6I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

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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