Galatians 4:19
My children, for whom I again travail in pain until Christ may be formed in you,
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
In Context
18It is good always to be zealous in a good thing, and not only in my coming to you.
20but I wish to come unto you now, and change my voice; because I am at a loss in reference to you.
Cross References
Romans 8:29Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:
1 Corinthians 4:14I do not write these things shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children.
Ephesians 4:24and to put on the new man, who has been created in harmony with God in the righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Philippians 2:5Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus:
Colossians 1:27to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:18-19
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. The apostle is still carrying on the same design as in the foregoing verses , which was, to convince the Galatians of their sin and folly in departing from the truth of the gospel: having just before been expostulating with them about the change of their behaviour… Read the whole commentary →