Galatians 4:13

on the contrary, you know that although it was illness which brought about my preaching the gospel to you at my first visit,

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

In Context

12Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;

14and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:3In weakness and fear and great trembling came I among you.

2 Corinthians 11:6Yes, though I be unskilled in speech, at least I am not in knowledge; indeed I made this perfectly plain to you in all things and among all men.

2 Corinthians 12:7It was for this reason, lest I should be over-elated, that there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be over-elated.

Galatians 1:6I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:13-17

Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. 14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to… Read the whole commentary →

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