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Galatians 4:16 KJV
Galatians · chapter 4 · verse 16
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?Galatians 4:16 · King James Version
Galatians 4:16 in context
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.
18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
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Key words (Strong's)
- becomeginomaito becomeG1096 →
- enemyechthroshated, odious, hateful, hostile, hating, and opposing another, used of men as at enmity…G2190 →
- tellalētheuōto speak or tell the truth, to teach the truth, to profess the truthG226 →
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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