Galatians 4:12
Brethren, I besech you be as I [am] for I am as ye are. Ye haue not iniured me at all.
Bible (Bishops')
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 feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vayne.
13Ye knowe howe through infirmitie of the fleshe, I preached the Gospell vnto you at the first:
Cross References
Genesis 34:15But in this will we consent vnto you: if ye wyll be as we be, & all the males amongest you be circumcised:
Galatians 2:14But when I sawe that they went not the ryght way to the trueth of the Gospel, I saide vnto Peter before them all: If thou beyng a Iewe, lyuest after the maner of the gentiles, and not as do the Iewes: Why causest thou the gentiles to lyue as do the Iewes?
Galatians 6:18Brethren, the grace of our Lorde Iesus Christe be with your spirite. Amen. [The Epistle vnto the Galathians, was sent from Rome.]
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 →