Galatians 4:12
Be you as I am, for I am as you are, my brethren, I beseech you. In nothing have you injured me.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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, lest vain in I have laboured among you.
13For you know that in infirmity of my flesh I preached to you at the first.
Cross References
Acts 21:21But it hath been said to them of thee, that thou teachest all the Jihudoyee who are among the Gentiles to remove from Musha; telling them that they should not circumcise their sons, nor walk in the customs of the law.
2 Corinthians 2:5But if any one hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me (only), but a part of you all: that the word may not weigh upon you.
Galatians 2:14And when I saw that they were not walking rightly in the truth of the gospel, I said to Kipha in the presence of them all: If thou who art a Jihudoya live as an Aramoya and not Judaically, why forcest thou the Gentiles to live Judaically?
Galatians 6:18The grace of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha be with your spirit, my brethren. 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 →