Galatians 4:13
Nay, ye know that by reason of weakness of the flesh I preached the glad tidings to you the former time;
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
In Context
12Become as I am, for I also became as ye are, brethren, I beseech you. Ye injured me in nothing.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 2:3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
2 Corinthians 11:6And though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in everything we have been made manifest among all, in respect to you.
2 Corinthians 12:7And that I might not be exalted overmuch through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.
Galatians 1:6I marvel that ye are so soon removing from him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel;
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 →