Galatians 4:14

and 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!

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13And you know that in those early days it was on account of bodily infirmity that I proclaimed the Good News to you,

15I ask you, then, what has become of your self-congratulations? For I bear you witness that had it been possible you would have torn out your own eyes and have given them to me.

Read all of Galatians 4

Cross References

Matthew 18:5And whoever for my sake receives one young child such as this, receives me.

Luke 10:16"He who listens to you listens to me; and he who disregards you disregards me, and he who disregards me disregards Him who sent me."

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Galatians 4:14