Galatians 4:12
Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.
13And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first.
Cross References
Genesis 34:15But in this will we consent vnto you, if ye will be as we are, that euery man childe among you be circumcised:
Acts 21:21Now they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Iewes, which are among the Gentiles, to forsake Moses, and sayest that they ought not to circumcise their sonnes, neither to liue after the customes.
2 Corinthians 2:5And if any hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made mee sorie, but partly (lest I should more charge him) you all.
Galatians 2:14But when I saw, that they went not ye right way to the trueth of ye Gospel, I sayd vnto Peter before all men, If thou being a Iewe, liuest as the Gentiles, and not like the Iewes, why constrainest thou the Gentiles to doe like the Iewes?
Galatians 6:18Brethren, the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with your spirit, Amen. ‘Vnto the Galatians written from Rome.’
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 →