Galatians 4:19

you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

In Context

18It is always an honourable thing to be courted in an honourable cause; always, and not only when I am with you, my children--

20Would that I were with you and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Read all of Galatians 4

Cross References

Romans 8:29For those whom He has known beforehand He has also pre-destined to bear the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Eldest in a vast family of brothers;

1 Corinthians 4:14I am not writing all this to shame you, but I am offering you advice as my dearly-loved children.

Ephesians 4:24with that new and better self which has been created to resemble God in the righteousness and holiness which come from the truth.

Philippians 2:5Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:27to whom it was His will to make known how vast a wealth of glory for the Gentile world is implied in this truth--the truth that `Christ is in you, the hope of glory.'

Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:18-19

Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. The apostle is still carrying on the same design as in the foregoing verses , which was, to convince the Galatians of their sin and folly in departing from the truth of the gospel: having just before been expostulating with them about the change of their behaviour… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Galatians 4:19