Galatians 4:19

O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within you!

Montgomery New Testament

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 always an honorable thing to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, always, and not only when I am with you.

20How I wish I could be with you now, that I might change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

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Cross References

Romans 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood;

1 Corinthians 4:14I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.

Ephesians 4:24and to put on the new self, created after God’s likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

Philippians 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

Colossians 1:27To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which 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 →

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