Galatians 4:16 — Meaning and Application

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“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”

Galatians 4:16

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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. {Where...: or, What was then}

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

They zealously affect you, {but} not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. {exclude you: or, exclude us}

But {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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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: {elements: or, rudiments}"

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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