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Galatians 4:12 KJV
Galatians · chapter 4 · verse 12
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.Galatians 4:12 · King James Version
Galatians 4:12 in context
10Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- Brethrenadelphosa brother, whether born of the same two parents or only of the same father or mother…G80 →
- beseechdeomaito want, lack, to desire, long for, to ask, beg, the thing asked for, to pray, make…G1189 →
- injuredadikeōabsolutely, to act unjustly or wickedly, to sin,, to be a criminal, to have violated the…G91 →
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That these Christians might be the more ashamed of their defection from the truth of the gospel which Paul had preached to them, he here reminds them of the great affection they formerly had for him and his ministry, and puts them upon considering how very unsuitable their present behaviour was to what they then…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-16