Galatians 4:20
and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
In Context
19my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:
21Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:19but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:20-21
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. That the apostle might the better dispose these Christians to bear with him in the reproofs which he was obliged to give them, he here expresses his great affection to them, and the very tender concern he had for their welfare: he was not like them—one thing when among them and another when absent… Read the whole commentary →