Galatians 4:16

So then, have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15How great then was your boasting of happiness! for I bear you witness, that if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.

17They show a zeal for you, but not in honesty; yea, they wish to exclude you, that ye may be zealous for them.

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Cross References

Psalms 141:5Let the righteous smite me,—it shall be a kindness; Let him reprove me, and it shall be oil for my head; Let him do it again, and my head shall not refuse it; But now I pray against their wickedness!

Amos 5:10They hate him that pleadeth in the gate, And abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

John 8:45But because I speak the truth, ye believe me not.

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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