Galatians 4:13
but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
In Context
12I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, for I also am become as ye are. Ye did me no wrong:
Cross References
Leviticus 13:40And if a man’s hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
1 Corinthians 2:3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
2 Corinthians 11:6But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we been made manifest unto you in all things.
2 Corinthians 12:7And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.
Galatians 1:6I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto 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 →