Galatians 4:15
Where then is your blessedness? For I testify of you, that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
16Have I become an enemy to you, by preaching to you the truth?
Cross References
Romans 4:6As David also speaketh of the blessedness of the man, to whom God reckoneth righteousness without works,
Romans 9:3For I have prayed, that I myself might be accursed from Messiah, for my brethren and my kinsmen in the flesh:
Romans 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace, by faith; that ye may abound in his hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 3:14that the blessing of Abraham might be on the Gentiles, through Jesus the Messiah; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
Galatians 5:22But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, long suffering, suavity, kindness, fidelity, modesty, patience.
Colossians 4:13For I testify for him, that he hath great zeal for you, and for them of Laodicea, and for them of Hierapolis.
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 →