Galatians 4:15

what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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 me.

In Context

14and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me — as Christ Jesus;

16so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

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Cross References

Romans 4:6even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

Romans 9:3for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ — for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

Romans 15:13and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 3:14that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

Galatians 5:22And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Colossians 4:13for I do testify to him, that he hath much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

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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