Galatians 4:20

But I could wish to be with you now and speak in a different tone, for I am perplexed about you.

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In The King James Version

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

In Context

19you for whom I am again enduring a mother’s pains, until a likeness to Christ will have been formed in you.

21Tell me, you who want to be still subject to Law – Why don’t you listen to the Law?

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:19But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord; and then I will find out, not what words these people use who are so puffed up, but what power they possess;

1 Thessalonians 3:9How can we thank God enough for all the happiness that you are giving us in the sight of our God?

Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:20-21

Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. That the apostle might the better dispose these Christians to bear with him in the reproofs which he was obliged to give them, he here expresses his great affection to them, and the very tender concern he had for their welfare: he was not like them—one thing when among them and another when absent… Read the whole commentary →

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