Galatians 4:13

And you know that in those early days it was on account of bodily infirmity that I proclaimed the Good News to you,

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Brethren, become as I am, I beseech you; for I have also become like you. In no respect did you behave badly to me.

14and yet the bodily infirmity which was such a trial to you, you did not regard with contempt or loathing, but you received me as if I had been an angel of God or Christ Jesus Himself!

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:3And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety.

2 Corinthians 11:6And if in the matter of speech I am no orator, yet in knowledge I am not deficient. Nay, we have in every way made that fully evident to you.

2 Corinthians 12:7And judging by the stupendous grandeur of the revelations--therefore lest I should be over-elated there has been sent to me, like the agony of impalement, Satan's angel dealing blow after blow, lest I should be over-elated.

Galatians 1:6I marvel that you are so readily leaving Him who called you by the grace of Christ, and are adhering to a different Good News.

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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