Galatians 4:12
Brethren, I urge you, be as I am; for I became as you are: you have not injured me at all.
Revised King James 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 I have bestowed labour upon you in vain.
13You know it was because of infirmity of the flesh that I first preached the gospel to you.
Cross References
Acts 21:21And they have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, nor to walk after our customs.
2 Corinthians 2:5But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but to some degree, not to put it too severely, to all of you.
Galatians 2:14But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to live like the Jews?
Galatians 6:18Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
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 →