Galatians 4:12
Be as I am, for I also am as ye are, brethren―this is my request to you: ye have not injured me in the least.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.
13Ye know that with infirmity of flesh I preached to you the gospel at the first.
Cross References
Acts 21:21And they have been informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews, who are among the Gentiles, apostacy from Moses, saying, That they should not circumcise the children, nor walk after the usual practices.
2 Corinthians 2:5Now if any person hath given cause for grief, he hath not grieved me merely, but partly all of you; that I may add no farther burden.
Galatians 2:14But when I saw that they walked not directly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to judaize?
Galatians 6:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen. To 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 →