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Galatians 4:13 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. "
Galatians 4:13
Verse in Context
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I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
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.
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.
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Galatians 4:1
"Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;"
Galatians 4:2
"But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father."
Galatians 4:3
"Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:"
Galatians 4:4
"But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,"
Galatians 4:5
"To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."
Galatians 4:6
"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father."
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