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Galatians 4:16

so have I become your enemy, being true to you?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

In Context

15what then was your blessedness? For I testify to you, that if possible, having plucked out your eyes, you would have given [them] to me;

17They are zealous for you—[yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that you may be zealous for them;

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:17[And it] comes to pass at Ahab’s seeing Elijah that Ahab says to him, “Are you he—the troubler of Israel?”

1 Kings 22:8And the king of Israel says to Jehoshaphat, “Yet one man [remains] to seek YHWH from him, and I have hated him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil—Micaiah son of Imlah”; and Jehoshaphat says, “Do not let the king say so.”

2 Chronicles 24:20and the Spirit of God has clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stands above the people, and says to them, “Thus said God: Why are you transgressing the commands of YHWH, and do not prosper? Because you have forsaken YHWH, He forsakes you.”

Psalms 141:5The righteous beat me [in] kindness. And reprove me, || My head does not disallow oil of the head, || For my prayer [is] still about their distress.

Amos 5:10They have hated a reprover in the gate, || And they detest a plain speaker.

John 8:45And because I say the truth, you do not believe Me.

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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