Galatians 4:13

You remember that it was because I was sick that I shared with you the good news on my first visit.

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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'm pleading with you, my friends: be like me, because I became like you. You've never treated me badly.

14Even though my illness was difficult for you, you didn't despise or reject me—in fact you treated me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:40If a man loses his hair and goes bald, he is still clean.

1 Corinthians 2:3I came to you in weakness, fearful and trembling.

2 Corinthians 11:6Even though I may not be skilled in giving speeches, I do know what I'm talking about. We have made this absolutely clear to you in every way.

2 Corinthians 12:7Also, because these revelations were so amazingly great, and so that I wouldn't become proud, I was given a “thorn in my flesh” —a messenger from Satan to hurt me so that I wouldn't become proud.

Galatians 1:6I'm shocked at how quickly you're abandoning the God who by the grace of Christ called you. You are turning to a different kind of good news

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 →

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