New American Standard Bible 1995

Galatians 4:10-21

10You 1observe days and months and seasons and years. 11I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored 2over you in vain.

12I beg of you, 3brethren, 4become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong; 13but you know that it was because of a 5bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the 6first time; 14and that which was a 7trial to you in my 8bodily condition you did not despise or 9loathe, but 10you received me as an angel of God, as 11Christ Jesus Himself. 15Where then is 12that sense of blessing you had? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. 16So have I become your enemy 13by 14telling you the truth? 17They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them. 18But it is good always to be eagerly sought in a commendable 15manner, and 16not only when I am present with you. 19 17My children, with whom 18I am again in labor until 19Christ is formed in you-- 20but I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for 20I am perplexed about you.

21Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not 21listen to the law?

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Notes

1. Galatians 4:10 Rom 14:5; Col 2:16 ↩
2. Galatians 4:11 Or for ↩
3. Galatians 4:12 Gal 6:18 ↩
4. Galatians 4:12 2 Cor 6:11, 13 ↩
5. Galatians 4:13 Lit weakness of the flesh ↩
6. Galatians 4:13 Or former ↩
7. Galatians 4:14 Or temptation ↩
8. Galatians 4:14 Lit flesh ↩
9. Galatians 4:14 Lit spit out at ↩
10. Galatians 4:14 Matt 10:40; 1 Thess 2:13 ↩
11. Galatians 4:14 Gal 3:26 ↩
12. Galatians 4:15 Lit the congratulation of yourselves ↩
13. Galatians 4:16 Amos 5:10 ↩
14. Galatians 4:16 Or dealing truthfully with you ↩
15. Galatians 4:18 Or thing ↩
16. Galatians 4:18 Gal 4:13f ↩
17. Galatians 4:19 1 John 2:1 ↩
18. Galatians 4:19 1 Cor 4:15 ↩
19. Galatians 4:19 Eph 4:13 ↩
20. Galatians 4:20 2 Cor 4:8 ↩
21. Galatians 4:21 Luke 16:29 ↩

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