Galatians 4:12
Be ye as I, because I also am as you: brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured me at all.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.
Cross References
Genesis 34:15But in this way may we be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised:
Acts 21:21Now they have heard of thee that thou teachest those Jews, who are among the Gentiles, to depart from Moses: saying, that they ought not to circumcise their children, nor walk according to the custom.
2 Corinthians 2:5And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me; but in part, that I may not burden you all.
Galatians 2:14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Galatians 6:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. 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 →