Galatians 4:12-20
1599 Geneva Bible
12 [a]Be ye as I (for I am even as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye have not hurt me at all.
13 And ye know, how through [b]infirmity of the flesh, I preached the Gospel unto you at the first.
14 And the [c]trial of me which was in my flesh, ye despised not, neither abhorred: but ye received me as an Angel of God, yea, as [d]Christ Jesus.
15 [e]What was then your felicity? for I bear you record, that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them unto me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They are jealous over you [f]amiss: yea, they would exclude you, [g]that ye should altogether love them.
18 But it is a good thing to love [h]earnestly always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you,
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you.
20 And I would I were with you now, that I might [i]change my voice: for I am in doubt of you.
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- Galatians 4:12 He mitigateth and qualifieth those things wherein he might have seemed to have spoken somewhat sharply, very artificially and divinely, declaring his good will towards them in such sort, that the Galatians could not but either be utterly desperate when they read these things, or acknowledge their own lightness with tears, and desire pardon.
- Galatians 4:13 Many afflictions.
- Galatians 4:14 Those daily troubles wherewith the Lord tried me amongst you.
- Galatians 4:14 For my ministry’s sake.
- Galatians 4:15 What a talk was there abroad in the world amongst men, how happy you were?
- Galatians 4:17 For they are jealous over you for their own commodity.
- Galatians 4:17 That they may convey all your love from me to themselves.
- Galatians 4:18 He setteth his own true and good love, which he earnestly bent towards them, against the naughty vicious love of the false apostles.
- Galatians 4:20 Use other words among you.
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