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Galatians 4:14 KJV
Galatians · chapter 4 · verse 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.Galatians 4:14 · King James Version
Galatians 4:14 in context
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.
15Where 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.
16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- temptationpeirasmosan experiment, attempt, trial, proving, trial, proving the trial made of you by my bodily…G3986 →
- despisedexoutheneōto make of no account, despise utterlyG1848 →
- rejectedekptyōto spit out, reject, spurn, loatheG1609 →
- receiveddechomaito take with the hand, to take hold of, take up, to take up, receive, used of a place…G1209 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- fleshsarxflesh of both man and beasts, the body, the body of a man, used of natural or physical…G4561 →
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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