Galatians 4:12
I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
In Context
11I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labour for you.
13but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
Cross References
Genesis 34:15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
Acts 21:21They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are amongst the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs.
2 Corinthians 2:5But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
Galatians 2:14But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
Galatians 6:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:9-12
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. 9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. In these verses the apostle puts them in mind of what they were before their conversion to the… Read the whole commentary →