Galatians 4:12
Brethren, become as I am, I beseech you; for I have also become like you. In no respect did you behave badly to me.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose.
Cross References
Acts 21:21Now what they have been repeatedly told about you is that you teach all the Jews among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, and that you forbid them to circumcise their children or observe old-established customs.
2 Corinthians 2:5Now if any one has caused sorrow, it has been caused not so much to me, as in some degree--for I have no wish to exaggerate--to all of you.
Galatians 2:14As soon as I saw that they were not walking uprightly in the spirit of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, though you are a Jew, live as a Gentile does, and not as a Jew, how can you make the Gentiles follow Jewish customs?
Galatians 6:18May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits, brethren. 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 →