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Galatians 4:15 KJV
Galatians · chapter 4 · verse 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 me.Galatians 4:15 · King James Version
Galatians 4:15 in context
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?
17They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- blessednessmakarismosdeclaration of blessedness, to utter a declaration of blessedness upon one, to pronounce…G3108 →
- possibledynatosable, powerful, mighty, strong, mighty in wealth and influence, strong in soul, to bear…G1415 →
- bearmartyreōto be a witness, to bear witnessG3140 →
- eyesophthalmosthe eye, metaph. the eyes of the mind, the faculty of knowingG3788 →
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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